Sarah never admits that she's his mother, even though she's brought the boy into her life as a "lot lizard": a prostitute working the West Virginia truck stops. Desperate to win her love, he decides to surpass her as the best and most famous lot lizard ever. With his own skirt of leather and his own makeup bag that closes with Velcro, "Cherry Vanilla" journeys through the wilds of West Virginia, dining on transcendental cuisine, supplicating to the mystical Jackalope, encountering the most terrifying of pimps, walking on water, being venerated as an innocent girl saint among whores — and then being denounced as the devil. By turns funny and shocking, magical and realistic, SARAH brings heart, wit, and imagination to an unknown and unforgettable world.