Tricyclist by Joon Oluchi Lee - ISBN: 9781643623252
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A queer ballet dancer’s chaotic, poetic, and pornographic journey through early aughts San Francisco.
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Tricyclist

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    144 pages

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    5 November 2026

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Summary

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, poeti…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781643623252
ISBN-10:1643623257
Author:Joon Oluchi Lee
Publisher:Nightboat Books
Imprint:Nightboat Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:144
Release Date:5 November 2026
Dimensions:203mm x 127mm
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Critics Review

“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

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.

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