One Fine Day

Joanna Bruckner finds her parents insensitive, dull and hopelessly small-minded. It's 1969, and arguments about the Vietnam War, drugs, sex and who her friends are have pushed the family to the breaking point. She's unhappy with the way she looks, and feels lonely and adrift. But a chance encounter with a seductive Frenchman in the summer before she leaves for college changes everything, triggering an obsessive love affair and one misadventure after another. Joanna searches for meaning in the Zen teachings of an unorthodox Biology professor, a hallucinogenic trip through the streets of Boston, risky encounters, hair-raising road trips and finally, a pilgrimage to France. With the war and the free-loving 1960's as backdrop, "One Fine Day" will take readers back to that era of turmoil, angst and self-seeking. Caught in a dangerous spiral, Joanna's life spins out of control until a shocking tragedy forces her to re-examine who she is and what the bonds of family truly mean.