Publisher's Synopsis
After failing in Mexico to discover a "metaphysical laxative of sorts" that would provide spiritual release, and following several high-minded months of teaching history to raucous eighth graders at Our Lady of Social Grace, Donald Gidwell lands a job at Fillmore Oil where he falls in love with Lucy Coneros. His quest for liberation, however, whether spiritual or political, is not over. During peace protests and a journey to India to become one with the One, he realizes that perhaps his approach to release has been mistaken all along, and maybe his relationship with Lucy requires a change. In THE BREAKROOM, Lady Fortune comically directs Gidwell's life with the help of those who frequent the breakroom at Fillmore Oil-those buzzing with electrifying information and thus prepared to offer judgment. Of course, everything is very serious, too, tragic even-a tragicomedy. Spiritual but not religious, a traveler but not a tourist, leaning Marxist-socialist-progressive while experimenting with a sex-free life, Donald Gidwell is . . . well, along with everyone else in the breakroom, you'll have to judge.
