{"product_id":"couplets-a-love-story-maggie-millner-paperback","title":"Couplets: A Love Story -- Maggie Millner, Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eAn astounding debut.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eAdrienne Raphel, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dazzling love story in poems about one woman's coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems in the prevailing style. She also has dreams: of being seduced by a throng of older women, of kissing a friend in a dorm-room closet. But the dreams are private, not real. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne night, she meets another woman at a bar, and an escape hatch swings open in the floor of her life. She falls into a consuming affair--into queerness, polyamory, kink, power and loss, humiliation and freedom, and an enormous surge of desire that lets her leave herself behind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaggie Millner's captivating, seductive debut is a love story in poems that explores obsession, gender, identity, and the art and act of literary transformation. In rhyming couplets and prose vignettes, \u003ci\u003eCouplets \u003c\/i\u003echronicles the strictures, structures, and pitfalls of relationships--the mirroring, the pleasing, the small jealousies and disappointments--and how the people we love can show us who we truly are. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An endlessly inventive, wise, exhilarating book.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Garth Greenwell, author of \u003ci\u003eCleanness \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWhat Belongs to You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maggie Millner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374612818","brand":"Maggie Millner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45674497081572,"sku":"9780374612818","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780374612818.jpg?v=1727556144","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/couplets-a-love-story-maggie-millner-paperback","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}