Maggie Millner

An astounding debut . . . a book that seduces the brain . . . Millner's couplets enact high-wire acts of wit and poignancy. New York Times 'I've never read a better encapsulation of what it means to question a previously fixed idea of identity and selfhood.' Vogue 'Millner's ultimate achievement is to draw open the distance . . .between...

Maggie Millner's seductive debut is a novel-in-verse about a woman in her late twenties who leaves a long-term relationship with a boyfriend for another woman. The affair thrusts her from an outwardly conventional life into queerness, polyamory, kink, and unalloyed, consuming desire. What ensues is an exploration of obsession, gender, identity-making, sexual experiment, and the art and act of literary...