{"product_id":"deep-house-the-gayest-love-story-ever-told","title":"Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Best Books of 2025 \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003eTop 10 Books of the Year Time Out 10 Best Books of the Year NPR Books We Love 2025 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A Recommended Book in the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eStyle Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eW Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNBC News, E! Online, Queerty\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub, Stylist, \u003c\/i\u003e\u0026amp;\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eDazed\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eGay Bar\u003c\/i\u003e comes a rule-breaking, sweat-soaked, genre-busting story of outlaw love.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It's 1996, and Jeremy Atherton Lin has met the boy of his dreams -- a mumbling, starry-eyed Brit -- just as, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples federal rights including immigration. The pair steals away to remote forests and vast deserts, London fashion shows and Berlin sex clubs, dinner parties, back alleys, East Village hotel rooms, and San Francisco dives. Finding no other way to stay together, they shack up illicitly among unlikely allies in a \"city of refuge.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With Atherton Lin's inimitable blend of tenderness and wicked humor, \u003ci\u003eDeep House \u003c\/i\u003emoves through the couple's string of rented apartments while unlocking doors to a lineage of gay men who have come before -- smuggling a foreign partner through national checkpoints or going public to stand up for the right to get down in the privacy of their own homes. They include hapless criminals, sexpot bartenders, friars, pirates, government workers who subverted the system, activists who went all the way to the Supreme Court, and the celebrated artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Following \u003ci\u003eGay Bar\u003c\/i\u003e -- called \"a rich tapestry\" by \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e and \"an absolute tour de force\" by Maggie Nelson -- \u003ci\u003eDeep House\u003c\/i\u003e juxtaposes whispered disclosures of undocumented domesticity with courtroom drama and political stunts to explore myriad forms of intimacy while questioning the mechanisms that legitimize love. \u003ci\u003eDeep House\u003c\/i\u003e is 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 0316545791\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780316545792\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Lin, Jeremy Atherton\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Little Brown and Company\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Little Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover (Jun 2025)","offer_id":46080963739845,"sku":"9780316545792","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780316545792.jpg?v=1776042451","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/deep-house-the-gayest-love-story-ever-told","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}