{"product_id":"deep-house-the-gayest-love-story-ever-told-1","title":"Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Jeremy Atherton Lin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLittle Brown and Company\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6\/2\/2026, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSKU: 9780316546072\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of \u003ca title=\"Gay Bar\" href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/gay-bar-why-we-went-out\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eGay Bar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e comes a rule-breaking, sweat-soaked, genre-busting story of outlaw love.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\u003eIt'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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing \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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReviews:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jeremy Atherton Lin artfully combines easily forgotten social history with vivid, intimate accounts of his own love life to show us how, for queer people, the often-impersonal political grandstanding around marriage equality, and liberation more generally, can intrude upon and shape the most personal corners of gay life. In writing that is both lyrical and informative, this book also manages to be bold and sexy.\" -- \u003ci\u003eShon Faye, author of Love in Exile and \u003ca title=\"The Transgender Issue\" href=\"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/the-transgender-issue-trans-justice-is-justice-for-all\"\u003eThe Transgender Issue\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDeep House\u003c\/i\u003e is an enduring reminder to readers and to writers of memoir alike that our lives are best understood within the context of society and history...a masterclass in the ease with which the writer can blend the contextual and the personal. Perhaps more importantly, \u003ci\u003eDeep House\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid example of quiet tenderness. It is, indeed, a love letter that details more than a decade's worth of life from first date to marriage. But Mr. Atherton Lin never effuses, never shouts. Love is in the quiet details.\" -- \u003ci\u003eHippocampus Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Atherton Lin shrewdly braids the history of gay marriage into an account of his relationship with his husband in this gorgeous follow-up to \u003ci\u003eGay Bar\u003c\/i\u003e...Stylish, sexy, and deeply moving, this blends beautiful prose and incisive social history to stunning effect.\" -- \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/strong\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":"Burning Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52336396992795,"sku":"Deep House PB","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0466\/5121\/files\/81reYYrsF1L._SL1500.jpg?v=1771889844","url":"https:\/\/burningbooks.com\/products\/deep-house-the-gayest-love-story-ever-told-1","provider":"Burning Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}