{"product_id":"deep-house-the-gayest-love-story-ever-told","title":"Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS: \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORKER\u003c\/i\u003e - NPR - \u003ci\u003eELECTRIC LIT\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003ci\u003eTIME OUT\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003ci\u003ePUBLISHERS WEEKLY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePROSE Award Winner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLambda Literary Award Finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A fabulously riveting hybrid memoir and queer history lesson.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's 1996, and Jeremy has met the boy of his dreams--a mumbly, starry-eyed Brit--just as, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples access to immigration. Finding no other way to stay together, they shack up illicitly among unlikely allies in a \"city of refuge.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith an inimitable blend of tenderness and wicked humor, \u003ci\u003eDeep House\u003c\/i\u003e moves through the couple's string of rented apartments while unlocking doors to a lineage of outlaw lovers who have come before--smuggling a foreign partner across borders or going public to stand up for the right to get down in the privacy of their own homes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat emerges is an unexpected romantic comedy haunted by centuries of gay ghosts. \u003ci\u003eDeep House\u003c\/i\u003e stands at the intersection of the battle for marriage equality and the experience of undocumented migration--at once a historical kaleidoscope and the innermost tale of two boyfriends who made a home in the shadows of a turbulent civil rights battle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJeremy Atherton Lin\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eGay Bar\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Top Book of 2021 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. His essays appear in numerous places including the \u003ci\u003eParis Review, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eYale Review, \u003c\/i\u003efor which he was a finalist for the National Magazine Award\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e He has reviewed fiction for the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post.\u003c\/i\u003e His sound programs have been broadcast on NTS Radio. He is based in Los Angeles and East Sussex, England.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jeremy Atherton Lin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51503985230109,"sku":"9780316546072","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780316546072.jpg?v=1779996775","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/deep-house-the-gayest-love-story-ever-told","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}