{"product_id":"9780872864689","title":"So Many Ways to Sleep Badly","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Sycamore kicks mainstream literature in the teeth.”— \u003ci\u003eThe San Francisco Bay Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMattilda 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\u003cbr\u003eepiphanies, sea lions, and sleeping pills. \u003ci\u003eSo Many Ways to Sleep Badly\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eMattilda Bernstein Sycamore \u003c\/b\u003e is the gender-bending author of the highly praised novel \u003ci\u003ePulling Taffy \u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of the anthology \u003ci\u003eNobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity\u003c\/i\u003e . Sycamore writes regularly for a variety of publications, including \u003ci\u003eBitch\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eUtne Reader\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eAlterNet\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eMake\/Shift\u003c\/i\u003e , and \u003ci\u003eMaximumRocknRoll\u003c\/i\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027604750576,"sku":"9780872864689","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780872864689_p0.jpg?v=1763838534","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780872864689","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}