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I thought people would find this an entertaining read while they're on the road. You can even read it on your Palm Pilot.

It was really funny and is being given away free on the author's site at http://www.palmerowyoung.com/download.htm



Halcyon Daze is an offbeat, and original comedy detailing the journey of a group of late twenty-somethings, living in San Francisco, trying to find themselves, and make sense of the world that surrounds them.

It begins with Kalani Smith, a half-Chinese half-Caucasian woman from Hiawatha, Kansas who has just dumped her fiancé, a wealthy dentist named Barry, at the altar in front of the whole town.

She is about to turn 30, she has a dead end job, she’s bored with life and she still hasn’t had her first orgasm. So she leaves Hiawatha on a road trip in search of herself, her burgeoning sexuality, and to understand the question of happiness that plagues us all.
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Juxtaposed against vignettes of her tumultuous past we follow Kalani as she drives across the country on her way to San Francisco and toward her dream of becoming a writer.

Along the way she meets a motley cast of characters including an elderly Native American Medicine Woman, a cross-dressing ER doctor, and a stripper/ psychologist who is studying human-sexuality. What the characters have in common is that they are all searching for meaning in their lives.