My Hollywood Memoir and Other Fiction

<p>Four brilliantly entertaining vignettes about America's past half-century.</p><p> </p><p>In <strong><em>My Hollywood Memoir</em></strong><em></em> the grandson of a silent-screen star goes to Los Angeles to become a movie star himself. It's 1972 and Kid Crusoe Wyatt parlays his contacts into a gay love affair and a starring role in his grandfather's biopic-but will his fate be any different than Granddad's? <strong><em>Sidestep</em></strong><em></em> set in 1980s Ohio explores how American elites manage to stay on top come what may even as crack cocaine threatens Jonah Greene's outsized success. <strong><em>Big Luck</em></strong>'s Ricardo is a 2000s Mexican immigrant whose sex-worker past stymies his citizenship application until-after helping to game the California lottery-he realizes what he must do. The mood darkens with the mid-2010s in <strong><em>Save the Max Man!</em></strong> as a family deals with a child's health crisis by waging war on its medical insurance provider.</p><p> </p><p>Meyers is a masterly communicator.-<em>Kirkus Reviews</em></p><p><br></p><p><em> </em></p>