A Star Is Falling

You should read this fresh screwball comedy with a hundred shades of black humor. It is called A Star is Falling and in Hollywood shorthand is Emmanuelle meets Sleepless in Seattle. It will thrill fans of Dave Barry and shock and/or delight people who read Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper. The book is a postmodern twist on A Star is Born in that the ingénue is the substance challenged one and the older guy is the one that is brought out of obscurity. It’s somewhat disturbing, a bit twisted, and very funny.Ruthy Ronin, a fading A-Lister and latter day Candide has a publicity date that goes horribly wrong and sends her to prison and then rehab. While she undergoes the Torments of the Morally Challenged she recalls the low points of her paparazzi documented romantic history. In rehab she finally confronts her addiction, has many unsavory adventures, obtains a contraband Kindle, and stumbles on the self-published works of Waldo David, historical novels with a pop-philosophic undertones. She loves the books immensely and resolves to go meet him after she is released.