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Review

Pulling Taffy inhabits the boundaries between fiction, autobiography, and truth. It's about choosing to remain dangerous and unrepentant, struggling to survive this ravaging world without losing a sense of integrity and charm. Moving from mid-nineties Boston, to post-grunge Seattle, to Giuliani's New York, Pulling Taffy is about searching for home and not necessarily finding it.

"I've been waiting for years for this book, and Sycamore does not disappoint. One of the most consistently fierce voices on the otherwise tepid queer anthology scene, his fiction debut is a sharp and sparkling picaresque of queens and k-holes, grandmothers and tricks, friends and freaks. If David Lynch and David Wojnarowitz created a rebuttal to "Will and Grace," it could very well be this book. Sycamore's keen eye reveals the everyday as not merely absurd but grotesque. Like good drugs, Sycamore's writing leaves me craving for more."
—D. Travers Scott, author of Execution, Texas: 1987