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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Searching for the self, and finding only a mirror
Chapter 3: A crush appears and makes the room tilt
Chapter 4: Asking for consent, and the body’s silent countdown
Chapter 5: Saying yes, again and again, until there’s no turning back
Chapter 6: Leaving the first life, and grieving what kept it whole
Chapter 7: Boundaries, rope, and the politics of desire
Chapter 8: Poly on the page, jealousy in the flesh
Chapter 9: When the guidelines finally fail
Chapter 10: Ghosts of the first love, and the self shared between two people
Chapter 11: A road journey that still shines
Chapter 12: A second youth, and the labor of finding a voice
Chapter 13: The dispute you finally accept
Chapter 14: What’s left, and how to move forward
Description
Couplets is a memoir-in-verse about a young writer who upends a stable life after falling for a woman she can’t get out of her system. She tries to negotiate open rules, then monogamy, then their opposite again, and learns how quickly desire changes the geometry of everything. The book moves from city bars to family holidays, from poly schedules to quiet rooms where poems and arguments share the air. Along the way, she loses a partner she thought she’d keep forever, stares at the parts of herself she’d rather not, and discovers pleasure as a kind of information. This performance retells that journey in clear, spoken language. We follow the crush, the break, and the voice that survives. It’s tender, funny, and bracingly honest about sex, jealousy, and the need to claim a self that fits. If you’ve ever felt late to your own life, this story will feel like recognition.
Who Should Listen
- Listeners who enjoy intimate, voice-driven memoirs about queer desire and identity
- Anyone navigating open relationships, breakups, or a second adolescence in adulthood
- Writers and readers who like literature about literature—Audre Lorde, Woolf, Cather, Eliot—woven into real life