Advance Praise:
''I deeply adore this shattering, sexy, funny book.'' Megan Nolan
''Totally compelling and brilliant. I couldn''t put it down.'' Cecilia Knapp
-A dazzling, feather-light tour de force-witty and effervescent and insightful, and so sexy, and so real.- Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or
Maggie Millner-s seductive debut is a novel-in-verse about a woman in her late twenties who leaves a long-term relationship with a boyfriend for another woman. The affair thrusts her from an outwardly conventional life into queerness, polyamory, kink, and unalloyed, consuming desire. What ensues is an exploration of obsession, gender, identity-making, sexual experiment, and the art and act of literary transformation. Couplets is a dazzling fusion of form and content, chronicling the strictures, structures and pitfalls of relationships - the mirroring, the pleasing, the small jealousies and disappointments. Playful, clever, lovest