PINK COTTON CANDY IS SOMETIMES GREEN

Jonathan Callahan, is an ordinary fellow by outside accounts, but on the inside, he is a complex psychological organism, who barely keeps his head above water. Living the supposed suburban good life, he feels beset by life’s problems. He works for a boss who hates him, yelling at him all the time. At home, the local Homeowners’ Association besieges him with threatening requests that he repaint his door back to its original color. His wife wants him to be a man and stand up to it all, but he just wants to be a peacemaker. While dodging the inevitable arrows flung his way, Jonathan’s father suddenly dies, and when his oldest sister convinces him that only he can handle the funeral arrangements in New York City, his life goes from bad to right down the toilet.Because, of course, Dad was not an ordinary fellow; he was a crazy World War II Vet, who terrorized the entire family when Jonathan was a boy, that is, until Dad got locked up on a psycho ward. Seventeen years have passed since Jonathan has last seen him, and now, even in death, he’s back, and the family is gathering to play out their learned roles. All Jonathan wants to do is to bury his father, get the hell out of New York City, and return to Northern Virginia to settle his fight with the Nazi-styled Homeowners’ Association. Left to his own devices, he doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell, but aided by a humorous spirit guide, attended to by several wild and strange friends, and pushed by his two little girls, Jonathan learns that he doesn’t need to battle the forces of evil all by himself, all he has to do is stand up for himself and his family. Pink Cotton Candy Is Sometimes Green is an experimental novel, weaving psychological insights, humor, and new age beliefs.