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 thungs 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.