{"product_id":"9781802062236","title":"Deep House","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker, Time Out\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, \u003ci\u003eElectric Lit \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Year, and Lambda Literary Award Finalist \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A fabulously riveting hybrid memoir and queer history lesson' -\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's 1996, and Jeremy, a young American, has met the British boy of his dreams - just as, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples rights including immigration. The pair snatch time in forests and deserts, London fashion shows, and East Village hotel rooms; eventually, finding no other way to stay together, they shack up illicitly among unlikely allies in San Francisco.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat emerges is an unexpected romantic comedy haunted by centuries of gay ghosts. \u003ci\u003eDeep House\u003c\/i\u003e moves through the couple's various domiciles while unlocking doors to a lineage of outsiders who came before them: hapless criminals, sexpot bartenders, friars, pirates, government workers who subvert the system and activists who go all the way to the Supreme Court to fight for their freedoms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCombining cultural history with radically intimate memoir, \u003ci\u003eDeep House\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a romp through the queer archives and the innermost tale of two boyfriends who made a home in the shadows of a turbulent civil rights battle.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atherton, Lin, Jeremy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56683390435714,"sku":"9781802062236","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0936\/6575\/5522\/files\/9781802062236.jpg?v=1780309222","url":"https:\/\/archwaybookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781802062236","provider":"Archway Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}