Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the eARC!

Tramps Like Us feels like a confessional, a celebration, and reflection, and a love letter all rolled into one. We follow Joe, our narrator, as he brings us through his life. From beginnings in the south, hitchhiking across the country, and his years in San Francisco. 

The novel is full of booze, drugs, anonymous sex, finding chosen family, and, at its core, hope and love - even in the midst of what will become the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. Joe’s chosen family only grows with each passing page and some of these characters you come know and to love as if they could be your own friends. The new forward and afterward further enrich the story told within the pages between them. 

I am so glad this is being republished! I cannot recommend this enough for anyone who reads gay literature. Tramps Like Us feels like it will be a classic, cornerstone piece of gay literature among the likes of Giovanni’s Room and Stone Butch Blues.