From "the funniest important writer in America" comes a tale that is
gleefully zany and incisively sharp (Miami Herald).
Meet 22-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she
was fourteen-and about to attempt a comeback from her latest
drug-and-alcohol disaster.
Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her "undercover stunt double,"
Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too
"indisposed"-- meaning wasted -- to go out in public. And it is
Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by
obsessed paparazzo Bang Abbott.
Now the challenge for Cherry's handlers (über-stage mother; horndog
record producer; nipped, tucked, and Botoxed twin publicists; weed
whacker-wielding bodyguard) is to rescue Ann while keeping her existence
a secret from Cherry's public -- and from Cherry herself. The situation
is more complicated than they know. Ann has had a bewitching encounter
with Skink, the unhinged former governor of Florida living wild in a
mangrove swamp, and now he's heading for Miami to find her . . .
Will Bang Abbott achieve his fantasy of a lucrative private photo
session with Cherry Pye? Will Cherry sober up in time to lip-synch her
way through her concert tour? Will Skink track down Ann DeLusia before
Cherry's motley posse does? All will be revealed in this hilarious spin
on life in the celebrity fast lane.
