“elseship is a book that knows it cannot contain everything, yet contains more: a love letter to love in all its shapes, a thank you to the thankless kinds of love, a love story previously unwritten about. A generous exploration of how devastating and consuming love can be if untended, elseship is compassionate in its grief, while self-assured and loving of one’s own multitudes as well as those of others. . .More than anything, elseship is a gift.” —Nic Brewer, author of Suture

“elseship is a kaleidoscopic exploration of all that can exist between two people caught between friendship and unrequited love. It’s a gorgeous and delicately rendered tapestry of desires, and a bracing examination of what happens when feelings break the boxes and labels meant to neatly contain them.” —Angela Chen, author of Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex

“elseship is a story of permitting that which is painful and ambiguous about love to unfold towards that rare possibility of transformation—that we can be transformed by love. elseship tells, in a manner beautiful and honest, what it takes, or what else it takes, to meet the demands of intimacy, how a loving intimacy requires our radical attentiveness, our greatest risks of vulnerability. What else, why else, where else, who else: these are the difficult but exciting questions that orbit this work, that together in this work produce a rich archive of love (and of home). Indeed Abraham’s ‘else’ is the ship upon which we ought to traverse love, should we have the courage to do so.” —Bahar Orang, author of Where Things Touch: A Meditation on Beauty

“Nothing triggers archival fervour quite like unrequited love. For those of us who have ever googled ‘what is love’ late into the night, this book is ours. Tree Abraham has managed to do the impossible: transform the excesses of that delirious, excruciating fever state into a true work of art.” —Anelise Chen, author of So Many Olympic Exertions