Candy Everybody Wants

<p><strong>A balls-out joyride through eighties pop culture that enlightens as much as it exhilarates. --Armistead Maupin <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Michael Tolliver Lives</em></strong></p><p><strong>From the critically acclaimed author of <em>I Am Not Myself These Days</em> 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.</strong></p><p>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.</p>