title: So Many Ways to Sleep Badly
author: Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein
description: “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 Sycamore
  is the gender-bending author of the highly praised novel
  Pulling Taffy
  and the editor of the anthology
  Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
  . Sycamore writes regularly for a variety of publications, including
  Bitch
  ,
  Utne Reader
  ,
  AlterNet
  ,
  Make/Shift
  , and
  MaximumRocknRoll
  .