тАЬAn absorbing, fleshed-out portrait of an American male edging toward adulthoodтАЭ from the New York TimesтАУbestselling author of Bad Haircut (The New York Times Book Review).
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
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 fatherтАЩs lunch truck, which plies the parking lots of office parks in central New Jersey.
But Danny can use the time behind the coffee urn to try and make sense of a love life thatтАЩs gotten a little complicated. ThereтАЩs loyal and patient hometown honey Cindy and her recently dropped bombshell to contend with. And thereтАЩs also lissome Polly back in New HavenтАФwith her shifting moods, perfect thrift store dresses and inconvenient liaison with a dashing professor.
If girl problems arenтАЩt enough, thereтАЩs the constant menace of the Lunch Monsters, a group of thugs who think Danny has planted the Roach Coach in their territory.
тАЬPerrotta serves up a hilariously satirical eighties cocktail, with an Ivy League twist.тАЭ тАФGlamour
тАЬPerrotta . . . has drawn Danny so exquisitely . . . that you feel as if you know him pretty damn well . . . Danny is delightfully likeableтАФa Huck Finn of higher ed.тАЭ тАФThe Washington Post Book World
тАЬTom Perrotta gets it right . . . one of the few convincing portrayals of college life IтАЩve ever come across.тАЭ тАФNewsday
тАЬAn overwhelmingly pleasing book.тАЭ тАФThe New York Times
тАЬCompanionable and humane, lighthearted and surprisingly touching.тАЭ тАФNewsweek