Tricyclist - by Joon Oluchi Lee (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The love child of The L Word and Brontez Purnell's 100 Boyfriends, with a disaffected flair all its own.
It's San Francisco in the early aughts, and Howie Song is floundering. His failed projects--as a professional ballet dancer, as a boyfriend, as a friend--have left him forever the "third wheel." But maybe he likes it that way? Leaping wildly between lovers, centuries, and an ever-changing cultural landscape, Howie might just feel most himself in the fracture.

Delicious, poetic, and delightfully pornographic, Tricyclist is an ode to the "abnormal angles" of people and art. As Howie overcomes his own ambivalences--in large part thanks to two suitors, and a circle of supporters who happen to be lesbians--Joon Oluchi Lee portrays, with his signature flamboyance, all of life's joys, pitfalls, and pirouettes.

Review Quotes

"Lee (Lace Sick Bag) trains a droll, analytical eye on sex, desire, and gender in this delicious avant-garde novella."

--Publishers Weekly

"Neotenica resists easy codifications. Through their refracting, and converging identities, the characters of Neotenica function in tandem; a warm ball of sweet matter hurtling through space and yearning for the freedom to exist as itself, not as its facsimile."

--June Lei, The Brooklyn Rail

About the Author

Joon Oluchi Lee lives and writes in femininity and feminism. He is the author of Neotenica (Nightboat Books, 2020), which won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction. Also the author of 94 (2015) and Lace Sick Bag (2013), as well as various essays on queer theory, feminism, and fiction writing, he is Professor in Literary Arts & Studies at Rhode Island School of Design, and, with his partner Roddy, co-parent of their rescue dogs Nella and Sami.