description: PiMaybe the Moon,/i Armistead Maupin#39;s first novel since ending his bestselling iTales of the City/i series, is the audaciously original chronicle of Cadence Roth #151; Hollywood actress, singer, iconoclast and former iGuiness Book/i record holder as the world#39;s shortest woman. P All of 31 inches tall, Cady is a true survivor in a town where #151; as she says #151; "you can die of encouragement." Her early starring role as a lovable elf in an immensely popular American film proved a major disappointment, since moviegoers never saw the face behind the stifling rubber suit she was required to wear. Now, after a decade of hollow promises from the Industry, she is reduced to performing at birthday parties and bat mitzvahs as she waits for the miracle that will finally make her a star. P In a series of mordantly funny journal entries, Maupin tracks his spunky heroine across the saffron-hazed wasteland of Los Angeles #151; from her all-too-infrequent meetings with agents and studio moguls to her regular harrowing encounters with small children, large dogs and human ignorance. Then one day a lanky piano player saunters into Cady#39;s life, unleashing heady new emotions, and she finds herself going for broke, shooting the moon with a scheme so harebrained and daring that it just might succeed. Her accomplice in the venture is her best friend, Jeff, a gay waiter who sees Cady#39;s struggle for visibility as a natural extension of his own war against the Hollywood Closet. P As clear-eyed as it is charming, iMaybe the Moon/i is a modern parable about the mythology of the movies and the toll it exacts from it participants on both sides of the screen. It is a work that speaks to the resilience of the human spirit from a perspective rarely found in literature.
title: Maybe the Moon
titlecomplete: Maybe the Moon
genres: Fiction, American, The United States Of America, Queer, LGBT, Gay Fiction, Humor, Contemporary, Adult Fiction, Gay
ratings_count: 3339
publisher: Bt Bound