Candy Floss Collection: 3 Novels

Winner of the Independent Press Award 2022 Distinguished Favorites - Anthology
Winner of the 2021 NYC Big Book Award--Distinguished Favorite Anthology!
Winner of the 2020 American Fiction Awards--Anthologies!
Award-Winning Finalist of the 2021 International Book Awards--Fiction Anthologies!
Award-Winning Finalist of the 2021 National Indie Excellence Awards--Anthologies!
Award-Winning Finalist of the 2020 USA Best Book Awards--Fiction Anthologies!

Candy Floss Collection is a set of three previously released, bestselling novels: Low-Fat Love, Blue, and Film. Together these novels create an overarching message about what it truly means to live a ＂big life＂ and the kinds of relationships we need with others and ourselves along the way. This is not a trilogy. This collection can be understood as installation art. Written with humor, cultural insight, and a wink, we follow each female protagonist and cast of offbeat characters as they search for love, friendship, and a sense of self. The characters must learn to mind the gap between their lives as they are and as they wish them to be, to chase their dreams even as they stumble on their insecurities, and to never settle for low-fat love. Along the way, characters are imaged in the glow of television and movie screens, their own stories shaped and illuminated by the stories in pop culture. Set in contemporary New York and Los Angeles, with special tributes to 1980s pop culture, each book questions and celebrates the ever-changing cultural landscape against which we live our stories, frame by frame. Candy Floss Collection can be read entirely for pleasure or used as supplemental reading in a variety of courses in women’s studies/gender studies, sociology, psychology, communication, popular culture, media studies, or qualitative inquiry. The book includes further engagement for class or book club use.

Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., is an award-winning independent sociologist and best-selling author. Her books have been translated in numerous languages.