Candy -- a satire of Voltaire's Candide -- chronicles her adventures with mystics, sexual analysts, and everyone she meets when she sets out to experience the world.
The author recounts the major events of her life as they were experienced through candy consumption, from her childhood friendships, which were marked by conversation hearts, to her mature relationships, which were celebrated with ice cream ...
A candy maker from a neighboring town who wanted Englischer Bailey King disqualified from the annual Amish Confectionery Competition for being an outsider, dies from an allergy to an essential licorice ingredient.