{"product_id":"9780374612818","title":"Couplets: A Love Story","description":"“\u003cb\u003eAn astounding debut.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e—\u003cb\u003eAdrienne Raphel, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA dazzling love story in poems about one woman’s coming-out, coming-of-age, and coming undone\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An endlessly inventive, wise, exhilarating book.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Garth Greenwell, author of \u003ci\u003eCleanness \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWhat Belongs to You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48201832169712,"sku":"9780374612818","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374612818_p0.jpg?v=1763691012","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374612818","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}