{"product_id":"your-love-is-not-good-paperback","title":"Your Love Is Not Good - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohanna Hedva\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKirkus Reviews, \"Best Fiction of 2023\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn artist of color becomes obsessed with a white model in a novel with the glamour of Clarice Lispector and the viscerality of Han Kang.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt an otherwise forgettable party in Los Angeles, a queer Korean American painter spots a woman who instantly controls the room: gorgeous and distant and utterly white, the center of everyone's attention. Haunted into adulthood by her Korean father's abandonment of his family, as well as the specter of her beguiling, abusive white mother, the painter finds herself caught in a perfect trap. She wants Hanne, or wants to be her, or to sully her, or destroy her, or consume her, or some confusion of all the above. Since she's an artist, she will use art to get closer to Hanne, beginning a series of paintings with her new muse as model. As for Hanne, what does she want? Her whiteness seems sometimes as cruel as a new\u003cbr\u003esheet of paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the paintings of Hanne become a hit, resulting in the artist's first sold-out show, she resolves to bring her new muse with her to Berlin, to continue their work, and her seduction. But, just when the painter is on the verge of her long sought-after breakthrough, a petition started by a Black performance artist begins making the rounds in the art community, calling for the boycott of major museums and art galleries for their imperialist and racist practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTorn between her desire to support the petition, to be a success, and to possess Hanne, the painter and her reality become more unstable and disorienting, unwilling to cut loose any one of her warring ambitions, yet unable to accommodate them all. Is it any wonder so many artists self-destruct so spectacularly? Is it perhaps just a bit exciting to think she could too?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYour Love Is Not Good\u003c\/i\u003e stuffs queer explosive into the cracks between identity and aspiration, between desire and art, and revels in the raining debris.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohanna Hedva\u003c\/b\u003e is a Korean American writer, artist, and\u003cbr\u003emusician who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches, and now lives in\u003cbr\u003eLA and Berlin. Hedva is the author of the essay 'Sick Woman Theory', originally\u003cbr\u003epublished in 2016, which has now been translated into ten languages. Hedva is\u003cbr\u003ealso the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eOn Hell, \u003c\/i\u003e which was one of Dennis Cooper's\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003efavourite books of 2018, and the nonfiction\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecollection \u003ci\u003eMinerva\u003cbr\u003ethe Miscarriage of the Brain\u003c\/i\u003e. Their albums are \u003ci\u003eThe Sun and the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eand \u003ci\u003eBlack Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44378950664294,"sku":"9781916751224","price":26.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/scj1HlLIor9781916751224.webp?v=1768912843","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/your-love-is-not-good-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}