Candy Everybody Wants

“A balls-out joyride through eighties pop culture that enlightens as much as it exhilarates.” —Armistead Maupin New York Times bestselling author of Michael Tolliver LivesFrom the critically acclaimed author of I Am Not Myself These Days comes the very odd adventures of a starry-eyed young man from the Midwest seeking fame and fortune in the flamboyant surreality of New York Los Angeles . . . and everywhere in between.Jayson Blocher is tired of worshiping pop culture; he wants to be part of it. So he''s off accompanied by an ever-changing cast of quirky extended family members on an extremely bumpy journey from rural Wisconsin to a New York escort agency for Broadway chorus boys to a Hollywood sitcom set. Somewhere out there his destiny awaits—along with the discovery of first love some unusual coincidences a kidnapping mystery . . . and the sobering truth that being America''s sweetheart can leave a very sour aftertaste.