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**"An endlessly inventive, wise, exhilarating book."****-- Garth Greenwell, author of *Cleanness* and *What Belongs to You*****A dazzling love story in poems about one woman's coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone**A 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.One 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.Maggie 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...
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- Author
- Maggie Millner
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
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