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Joe College
Joe College: A Novel | Tom Perrotta
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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 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. 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.
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Joe College: A Novel | Tom Perrotta
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My Book Outlet order arrived! Now, I seriously need to calm down ordering books. HOWEVER I got a hankering for short story collections, and needed to pick some up. And, you know, some other books. 🤣🤣🤣📚

LitHousewife Those look so good, though!!! 7y
Megabooks @LitHousewife Thanks! I'm really excited about them!! 7y
Reviewsbylola I keep telling myself to calm down too. It doesn't work. 😂 7y
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Jbakesmcgee3 I love short story collections too! 7y
Megabooks @Reviewsbylola Right? I keep telling myself, keep that second #BOTM account closed. 😩🤣 7y
Megabooks @Jbakesmcgee3 They're wonderful! If I had to pick one type of book to read, that would be it! 7y
organizedmomreads Can you lmk the book outlet website? Thanks so much! 7y
Megabooks @organizedmomreads www.bookoutlet.com 7y
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Joe College: A Novel | Tom Perrotta
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For today's #funfridayphoto, it's Joe College. What happens when a working-class kid from Jersey attends Yale? In Perrotta's world, this is the space and time between the high school politics of Election and the marriage discontentment in Little Children. It asks big questions - such as how do you alleviate your guilt when you realize you have opportunities that your parents never had? How do you transition into different social class structures?

brendanmleonard Love Perotta - I'll have to check this out! 8y
Reviewsbylola This is one of the few Perotta I haven't read. Love him! 8y
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