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‘The polyamory book I’ve always wanted’ MIRANDA JULY

‘Michelle Tea is our luminary of optimistic rebellion’ JEREMY ATHERTON LIN

Love is consuming, love is boundless. Isn’t it natural for love to then spill out of the lines we draw around it?

Even before polyamory burst into the mainstream with its magnetic promise of liberation, Michelle Tea has been on the forefront, searching for a love without judgment. Her husband – though firmly monogamous – understands her enough to embark on a playful and sometimes painful adventure through such a marriage.

With years of experience on the queer scene, Michelle Tea uncovers the risks and rewards of non-monogamy, the honesty it requires, the guilt it elicits. Emphatic and refreshing, Free Love is an unforgettable lark through poly parties, STI clinics, tarot readings and good old-fashioned sluttery.

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I loved this reckless, joyful, disobedient book. Tea’s resolute quest for midlife freedom and pleasure is both sparky and inspiring — Olivia Laing Moving across decades, generations, even centuries, Michelle Tea’s Free Love approaches polyamory with the energy, wit and luminosity she brings to all her books. Without discounting any of the awkwardness and problems open relationships may bring, Tea embraces various experiments in liberated living as aspirational paths to creating better worlds — Chris Kraus Michelle Tea is our luminary of optimistic rebellion-sassy, astute, quicksilver, a master of the hot mess, with a legendary stature reaffirmed by wave upon wave of new readers — Jeremy Atherton Lin This is the polyamory book I’ve always wanted – nitty-gritty gooey honesty cut with a zoomed-out historical, political, spiritual context. Tea reminds us that a radical, expanded life might also be the most stable and sustaining life — Miranda July, New York Times-bestselling author of All Fours Free Love is many books at once – a survey of the liberationist history of polyamory, a memoir of Tea’s own experiments in the field, and a guide to some of the most intrepid, lively figures currently out there exploring the field. As always with Tea, however, the book vaults above these laudatory achievements, and – by dint of Tea’s unrivalled vulnerability, wit, and curiosity – invites us to revisit our own lives, reorder our own programming, and consider how we, too, might live in pursuit of better love and a better world — Maggie Nelson Michelle Tea writes with great energy and insight. Free Love is smart, colorful and very funny — Cat Marnell, author of How to Murder Your Life As with every insightful, illustrious, passion-excavating journey the inimitable Michelle Tea takes us through, Free Love is another potent gem. A compilation of the many and the multiplicitous, Tea tenderly explores the tendrils of desire, erotic play and the all-consuming nature of our contemplative, relational and sensual selves. Juicy, sexy and quintessentially hilarious, this book is one for the ages. Tea is undeniably one of the best contemporary writers of our time. Buy this book and enjoy the hell out of it — Fariha Roisin, author of How to Cure a Ghost