Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told

ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS: THE NEW YORKER - NPR - ELECTRIC LIT - TIME OUT - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

PROSE Award Winner

Lambda Literary Award Finalist

"A fabulously riveting hybrid memoir and queer history lesson." --New York Times

It's 1996, and Jeremy has met the boy of his dreams--a mumbly, starry-eyed Brit--just as, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples access toimmigration. Finding no other way to stay together, they shack up illicitly among unlikely allies in a "city of refuge."

With an 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 outlaw lovers who have come before--smuggling a foreign partner across borders or going public to stand up for the right to get down in the privacy of their own homes.

What emerges is an unexpected romantic comedy haunted by centuries of gay ghosts. Deep House stands at the intersection of the battle for marriage equality and the experience of undocumented migration--atonce a historical kaleidoscope and the innermost tale of two boyfriends who made a home in the shadows of a turbulent civil rights battle.

Author: Jeremy Atherton Lin
Publisher: Little, Brown Paperbacks
Published: 06/02/2026
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780316546072

About the Author

Jeremy Atherton Lin is the author of Gay Bar, a New York Times Top Book of 2021 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. His essays appear in numerous places including the Paris Review, the Times Literary Supplement and the Yale Review, for which he was a finalist for the National Magazine Award. He has reviewed fiction for the Guardian and the Washington Post. His sound programs have been broadcast on NTS Radio. He is based in Los Angeles and East Sussex, England.