Cadence Roth(Cady to her friends)is an actress hoping to recapture her first taste of fame. She is writing a journal as an inspiration for a one-woman show, and she is a patient roommate. She is also one of the smallest mobile human beings in North America, which is one of the biggest tensions in Armistead Maupin’s sweet-natured novel “Maybe the Moon”(I intended to blog about this book a while ago, but things got intense news-wise or something and it seemed saccharine and a bit unserious. It is something of a downmarket Hollywood fable, but anything that takes up time in a good way during these times is to be appreciated if not celebrated outright.
As much as I still hold out hope for #ownvoices writing, I will say that Maupin does a good job of making Cady both funny and spunky but a character with lots of sides, who feels born uder a ticking clock because of the complications of dwarfism, but is determined to have a good ride.(A note on the end of the novel says that Maupin based the character on a friend of his)
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