Unwrap Your Candy: A Bloomsday Novel by Jesse Miller
LJMcD Communications, June 16, 2026
Eluding narrative structure conventions, Jesse Miller’s cinematic Unwrap Your Candy: A Bloomsday Novel is a novel about being madly in love with — and consequently, blissfully intoxicated by — language. If you had planted James Joyce’s wayward, disjointed, but actually very loving son in contemporary America, he might have written this book.
Unwrap Your Candy: A Bloomsday Novel is the story of Thom Evans and a day/night he spends after he leaves his miserable job at a condom factory for a night on the town with his compellingly attractive, but seriously wounded lover, Samantha. Over the course of the evening, in much the same way that Leopold Bloom and his surrogate son, Stephen Dedalus, bumbled through Joyce’s Dublin, Thom and his memories of his father drunkenly bumble through a modern American city in all its glitter and crassness.
“An energetic but also tragicomic depiction of industrial-corporate life in ways that alternate between the mundane and grotesque. Irreverent, occasionally surreal, and with structural quirks, the prose is vivacious. Shades of The Pale King run throughout the novel.” — Daniel Davis Wood, author of At the Edge of the Solid World