Joe College

<p><p>For many college students, Spring Break means fun and sun in Florida. For Danny, a Yale junior, it means two weeks behind the wheel of the Roach Coach, his father's lunch truck, which plies the parking lots of office parks in central New Jersey. <p>But Danny can use the time behind the coffee urn to try and make sense of a love life that's gotten a little complicated. There's loyal and patient hometown honey Cindy and her recently dropped bombshell to contend with. And there's also lissome Polly back in New Haven--with her shifting moods, perfect thrift store dresses and inconvenient liaison with a dashing professor.<BR><I> </I><BR>If girl problems aren't enough, there's the constant menace of the Lunch Monsters, a group of thugs who think Danny has planted the Roach Coach in their territory.<p>JOE COLLEGE is Tom Perrotta's warmest and funniest fiction yet, a comic journey into the dark side of love, higher education and food service.<p></p><h3>Newsweek</h3><p>Tom Perrotta is like an American Nick Hornby: companionable and humane, lighthearted and surprisingly touching...Perrotta has established a slightly befogged comic landscape that's his alone. Fans of such quirky indie films as "Chasing Amy" and "Dazed and Confused" should feel right at home.</p>