{"product_id":"maybe-the-moon","title":"Maybe the Moon","description":"\"Maybe the Moon, \" Armistead Maupin's first novel since ending his bestselling \"Tales of the City\" series, is the audaciously original chronicle of Cadence Roth -- Hollywood actress, singer, iconoclast and former \"Guiness Book\" record holder as the world's shortest woman. \u003cp\u003e All of 31 inches tall, Cady is a true survivor in a town where -- as she says -- \"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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In a series of mordantly funny journal entries, Maupin tracks his spunky heroine across the saffron-hazed wasteland of Los Angeles -- 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'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's struggle for visibility as a natural extension of his own war against the Hollywood Closet. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e As clear-eyed as it is charming, \"Maybe the Moon\" 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 humanspirit from a perspective rarely found in literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833292894413,"sku":"9780060924348","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_c0492ba9-6fb0-4b2a-8c3c-e5e7c9ce41ec.jpg?v=1790815734","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/maybe-the-moon","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}