Deep House

<p><b>A <i>New Yorker, Time Out</i>, NPR, <i>Electric Lit </i>and <i>Publishers Weekly </i>Book of the Year, and Lambda Literary Award Finalist </b><Br><Br><b>‘A fabulously riveting hybrid memoir and queer history lesson’ –<i>The New York Times</i></b></p><p>It’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.</p><p>What emerges is an unexpected romantic comedy haunted by centuries of gay ghosts. <i>Deep House</i> 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.</p><p><b>Combining cultural history with radically intimate memoir, <i>Deep House</i> 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.</b></p>