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Free Love

Adventures in Marriage and Polyamory

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Free Love

By: Michelle Tea
Narrated by: Michelle Tea
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Summary

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.

©2026 Michelle Tea (P)2026 HarperCollins Publishers Biographies & Memoirs

Critic Reviews

'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)
'Michelle Tea is our luminary of optimistic rebellion.' (Jeremy Atherton Lin, National Book Critics Circle Award–winning author of Gay Bar and Deep House)
'Michelle Tea writes with great energy and insight. Free Love is smart, colorful and very funny.' (Cat Marnell, New York Times bestselling author of How to Murder Your Life)
'It's inspirational, evocative and asks us to consider our boundaries and societal conditioning around sex, love and commitment.' (Liz Goldwyn, author, filmmaker, artist and founder of The Sex Ed)
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