Full name: Joe College: A Novel

Author: Tom Perrotta Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Contemporary, Humor Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780312361785 0312361785

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. But Danny can use the time behind the coffee urn to try to 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. 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. 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. Similar books: The Turmoil by Booth Tarkington The Eyes of the World by Harold Bell Wright Samedi the Deafness by Jesse Ball The Half-life of Happiness by John Casey Wolf In White Van by John Darnielle The Subject Steve by Sam Lipsyte Trumpet by Jackie Kay Ordinary Love and Good Will by Jane Smiley Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller The Pursuit of Alice Thrift by Elinor Lipman The Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan An Inconvenient Woman by Dominick Dunne The Wilder Sisters by Jo-Ann Mapson Walking on Water by Richard Paul Evans The Path of Minor Planets by Andrew Sean Greer The Wishbones by Tom Perrotta Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta We're All Damaged by Matthew Norman Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman Be Frank With Me by Julia Claiborne Johnson