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So my guest today is Miriam LaQuas, author of a debut novel called How It Works Out.

I really admire people who write more traditional auto-fiction because they seem to know themselves so well.

They just, they seem to be able to say, this is the truth about me.

And I'm going to go deep into it and write it so eloquently and everyone's going to believe it because it's the truth.

Whereas for me, I have no idea what the truth is and I have no idea what the truth about myself is especially.

And so I think writing about myself in that way is a way to like experiment with what the truth might be

without ever really maybe getting to it, at least not so far.

All right, that was Miriam Laquois, author of the debut novel in stories entitled

How It Works Out.

It is available from the Overlook press and it is the official

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other ppl.com. So how it works out is a novel that is trying to answer the question, what if you had the chance to rewrite the course of your relationship again and again in the hopes that it would work out?

This is a book about a young lesbian couple named Miriam and Allison, and over

the course of the novel Miriam Laquois imagines for them a variety of possible fates. Each

chapter or each story takes them in a different direction.

The stories are surreal, sexy, profane, funny.

This is a hard to categorize book and a deft exploration of queerness,

love, and our desire for connection.

My conversation with Miriam Laquois is coming up in just a bit.

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