{"product_id":"9780316546072","title":"Deep House","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PROSE Award Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lambda Literary Award Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A fabulously riveting hybrid memoir and queer history lesson.” —\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It’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 toimmigration. Finding no other way to stay together, they shack up illicitly among unlikely allies in a “city of refuge.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What 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—atonce a historical kaleidoscope and the innermost tale of two boyfriends who made a home in the shadows of a turbulent civil rights battle.","brand":"Jeremy Atherton Lin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":50250918035813,"sku":"9780316546072","price":25.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0851\/2651\/2997\/files\/BNCImageAPI_facc258c-8208-4a57-92c5-16f0d869c979.jpg?v=1780258775","url":"https:\/\/www.commonplaceingersoll.ca\/products\/9780316546072","provider":"Commonplace Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}