One of four younger brothers of a gifted and highly successful jazz pianist, our less exceptional protagonist begins his peculiar journey of discovery at the age of seventeen, leaving his home in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains to travel with a laughably bad self-contained show band.

As he travels back and forth across the continent with a series of mostly unremarkable bands - bands with names such as "Love, Peace and Soul" and "Natural Feelin" - he encounters a world wherein talent is far less essential than a charming smile and the willingness to wear a ruffled polyester shirt, a world wherein getting laid is far more enjoyable, and a hell of a lot easier, than learning to play his instrument or sustaining a meaningful relationship.

Beautiful young women and angry husbands litter his voyage; there are brutal assaults and hilarious confrontations, and through it all, as he searches desperately for something or someone to believe in, he shares his intensely cynical view of himself and the world around him.

Though filled with humor, "More Towels" is a serious and often touching coming-of-age story, a story of growth, acceptance and survival, a story of one young man's efforts to conquer the demons that haunt him.