Just wanted to bay at the moon that my new novel is out. Reviews so far, so good:

“…a bold novel. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes brutal, the prose is always thoroughly engrossing.” - IndieReader

"Gaiter’s wonderfully evocative language, filled with musicality, captures the complexity of Jessie’s emotions as he struggles to make sense of his sexuality and place in the world.” – Blue Ink Review

If Ernest Hemingway was black, gay, and writing about growing up in the [1960s], he would have written something like Leonce Gaiter’s 'A Memory of Fictions (or) Just Tiddy-Boom'…" - Reader Views

The book is a a modern, jazzy take on the bildungsroman that uses everything from personal memoir, a fugue-like structure, poetry, images, lyrics, and diaries to paint a vivid, eloquent portrait of gay, black, Jessie Vincent Grandier. He steadfastly battles to reconcile his existence with expectations and preconceptions of those around him -- black and white -- while navigating the striving black middle class that shaped him in the 1960s. He wends his way through Harvard in the '70s and drinks his way through the Reagan '80s in gay bars from the LA barrios to Beverly Hills. When his grandiose ambitions have abandoned him, when he’s almost beaten, and when it’s a breath away from too late, he looks back, and regards the jagged shards of his life, and pieces them into a whole. A ribald, occasionally hilarious, sometimes brutal and utterly unique look at race, sex, and redemption—the hard way.