It wasn’t a story that felt lost, exactly, but more that everything together held no importance to me. I liked this author’s previous books but without giving anything away this book seemed like it was written really fast.

She offers a philosophy of sexuality as an expansive force: an organization of pleasure that refutes neoliberalism’s demand for incessant labor. another reviewer described the reading experience as a fever dream and that description of the reading experience for this felt apt and resonated.Political and poetic considerations of storytelling—the pitfalls of narrativizing one’s own life and the lives of others—infuse this absorbing tale of falling out and in and out of love .

She falls into a consuming affair—into queerness, polyamory, kink, power and loss, humiliation and freedom, and an enormous surge of desire that lets her leave herself behind. I felt for the character -- in many ways I think about sexuality similarly, so perhaps that's why (and sexuality is the main thread/theme/etc of the work). I'm always here for queer literature, so that's initially what drew me to this as I was unfamiliar with Maggie Millner's previous work. I know it comes down to personal taste, but lines like, “I’d expected cream, or cream when I’d expected semen,” and “This was why I liked to keep two of her fingers in my body while we slept.This really worked for me with the content, but forced me to rush through, when I really wanted to take my time and savour what was being said. Couplets is a dazzling fusion of form and content, chronicling the strictures, structures and pitfalls of relationships - the mirroring, the pleasing, the small jealousies and disappointments.