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Deep House
The Gayest Love Story Ever Told
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- On Sale
- Jun 3, 2025
- Page Count
- 416 pages
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- ISBN-13
- 9780316545792
Price
$29.00Price
$38.00 CADFormat
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- Hardcover $29.00 $38.00 CAD
- ebook $14.99 $19.99 CAD
- Audiobook Download (Unabridged) $27.99
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From the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of Gay Bar comes a rule-breaking, sweat-soaked, genre-busting story of outlaw love.
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.”
With Atherton Lin’s inimitable blend of tenderness and wicked humor, Deep House moves 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.
Following Gay Bar — called “a rich tapestry” by Vanity Fair and “an absolute tour de force” by Maggie Nelson — Deep House 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. Deep House 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.
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“Deep House goes from the pensoroso of the best history of marriage equality we have to the allegro of a very hot gay love story told in the funniest, most tender way.”Edmund White
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“Deep House is that rare and beautiful book—equally illuminating and pleasurable. I loved its luminous transcription of queer life, its incisive and intimate legal history of gay marriage in the U.S., its transcendently sexy and propulsive love story, and its portrait of social change that promises not the fantasy of permanent liberty, but that more ephemeral reward: joy. It is exactly the book we need right now.”Melissa Febos, author of The Dry Season and Girlhood, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
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“I love this book’s honesty and originality; the intricacy and intimacy with which it studies the politics of love and desire; its huge brain and dirty, beautiful heart.”Chris Power, author of A Lonely Man and Mothers
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“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.”Shon Faye, author of The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
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"Lin shrewdly braids the history of gay marriage into an account of his relationship with his husband in this gorgeous follow-up to Gay Bar...Stylish, sexy, and deeply moving, this blends beautiful prose and incisive social history to stunning effect."Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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"Deep House is more than a historic archive or a love-obsessed confession. It’s not even an argument for marriage—gay or otherwise. Instead, Deep House is an argument for love unbridled by restraints."The Brooklyn Rail
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“Deep House 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, Deep House 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. Lin never effuses, never shouts. Love is in the quiet details.”Hippocampus Magazine
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