America the beautiful
Subtitle: a novel
By: Moon Unit Zappa.
Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
Subjects: Young women -- Fiction.; Children of artists -- Fiction.; Hippies -- Family relationships -- Fiction.; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "America Throne is living the good life in L.A. Her career is sprouting, and she is in love - with Jasper Husch, a sexy-sultry artist from San Fran. But just as soon as they've realized domestic bliss, Jasper has a change of heart, and America falters on the slippery slope of hope: hoping that he will come back, hoping that new sex will erase all evidence of him, and hoping that in nurturing a truce with her dead father she will make peace with all men.

America's trip from self-destruction to wholeness is a romp on the wilder shores of the West Coast. From a dodgy therapist to a silent retreat, America Throne's "aha" moment culminates with, "While we are all busy swimming upstream, the universe is conspiring to take us to something better.""--BOOK JACKET.