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How It Works Out

By Myriam Lacroix

This review is all just opinion based with the professionalism of someone who has a reading disability and doesn’t write, ever. I hope to improve my comprehension and literary skills as I go. Thank you and enjoy.

SPOILERS

This book didn’t make sense to me until the final chapter when the character Karla playing Allison the costar of our main character FF playing Myriam, have a conversation about FF struggling to play her part as Myriam. Karla says “Maybe you can’t understand Myriam because she defines herself completely through her relationship with Allison. If I were you, I’d try to imagine Myriam without Allison.”

Now, for context every chapter in this book has been a different multiverse of the same queer couple; Allison and Myriam. They Ebb, flow and crash into one another through their many lives. In one chapter they are what I have interpreted to be a dog and a fish and the fish trying to escape. In another Myriam struggles with her mental health and it is momentarily healed by Allison’s flesh. The second last chapter was a Canadian, Fifty Shades, climate activist Sub/Dom fantasy number.

There seems to be a level of resentment perceived to be coming from Allison towards Myriam. There’s this give and take, codependency.

Throughout the chapters Myriam seems to struggle with a sense of self and her mental health, but just wants to be loved. Allison is filled with motherly instinct but in the same way many mothers take on too much and develop resentment, she struggles as well.

As I said in the beginning that quote really hammered it home for me. This is a book about a relationship that won’t let go, about two women who seem to be doomed from the beginning and don’t know how to live without the other. It’s just as stressful, intense and exciting as you would expect and then some.

Sometimes I would get lost in the chapters and wasn’t quite sure what was going on. The chapter “How it works out” was one I just didn’t seem to totally understand. I struggle to take the meaning from words so often, metaphors fly right over my head. Allison was giving Myriam the silent treatment and after a disagreement after a party they were not on speaking terms, but were training for a long distance run (I can’t remember what they’re called I’m so so sorry, Reader). I understood this all as they were physically unable to speak and then I realized it was a silly little metaphor and I’m just a silly little reader. Wasn’t my favourite but I think I just got lost.

With that said, I loved this book. I picked it up without knowing a single thing besides it being listed as a good queer novel. The cannibalism threw me off for sure, but I really, thoroughly enjoyed this read. I loved the themes and really fell in love with both characters. I felt them.

Thanks for reading

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