If You Can Make It There

Jason Lewis, a survivor of extreme childhood bullying, finds himself coming to terms with his sexuality in deeply religious Tennessee with a useless musical theatre degree and absolutely no direction. Homeless, jobless and estranged from his family, Jason searches for love in all the wrong places with hilarious and heart-breaking results. If You Can Make It There is the fiercely candid account of his twenties, the sometimes terrifying, sometimes side-splitting journey of a domestically-abused, cocaine-addicted drag queen determined to navigate his life’s rocky road and escape to the Big Apple by any means necessary, including a multiple-year stint as a full-time male escort. This memoir is a darkly comedic coming-of-age tale as well as a how-to manual for overcoming losers and saving yourself.