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Tricyclist

by Joon Oluchi Lee

A life lived at an angle

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A life lived at an angle

Set in early-2000s San Francisco, Tricyclist centers on Howie Song, whose disappointments as a ballet dancer, boyfriend, and friend leave him occupying the position of the third wheel. The book moves among lovers, centuries, and changing cultural contexts as Howie considers whether that in-between place might suit him after all. Two suitors and a circle of lesbian supporters enter the picture as he works through his ambivalence. Its premise links questions of belonging and self-definition with the “abnormal angles” of people and art, giving the novel a frame that reaches beyond romantic relationships alone.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in LGBTQ+ fiction set in early-2000s San Francisco.
  • Readers drawn to stories about romantic relationships, friendship, and uncertain belonging.
  • Readers interested in fiction that connects personal identity with art and cultural change.

Themes

Belonging and the third-wheel positionRomantic and platonic relationshipsIdentity and ambivalenceArt and cultural change

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Book overview

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.
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