{"product_id":"couplets-a-love-story","title":"Couplets: A Love Story","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA dazzling love story in poems about one woman’s coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eCouplets\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Maggie Millner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47952247521474,"sku":null,"price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/8002\/4002\/files\/61vkyOLosCL._SY522.jpg?v=1782307920","url":"https:\/\/frictionbooks.com\/products\/couplets-a-love-story","provider":"Friction Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}