So Many Ways to Sleep Badly

"Sycamore kicks mainstream literature in the teeth."--The San Francisco Bay Guardian Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's exhilarating new novel is about struggling to find hope in the ruins of everyday San Francisco--battling roaches, Bikram Yoga, chronically bad sex, NPR, internet cruising, tweakers, the cops, $100 bills, chronic pain, the gay vote, vegan restaurants, and incest, with the help of air-raid sirens, herbal medicine, late-night epiphanies, sea lions, and sleeping pills.So Many Ways to Sleep Badly unveils a gender-bending queer world where nothing flows smoothly, except for those sudden moments when everything becomes lighter or brighter or easier to imagine. Mattilda Bernstein Sycamoreis the gender-bending author of the highly praised novelPulling Taffyand the editor of the anthologyNobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity. Sycamore writes regularly for a variety of publications, includingBitch,Utne Reader,AlterNet,Make/Shift, andMaximumRocknRoll.… (more)