America the Beautiful

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.
In America the Beautiful, Moon Zappa has taken the broken-heart story and given it a twist all her own through the emotional honesty and edginess of America Throne. Hailed as brilliant (Sunday Telegraph Magazine), America the Beautiful is the debut of an unforgettable and unfaltering new voice

Author: Moon Unit Zappa
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Published: 09/01/2001
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.40w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780743213837

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2001 pg. 828
Library Journal 06/01/2001 pg. 220
Publishers Weekly 08/20/2001 pg. 56

About the Author
Moon Unit Zappa is the daughter of legendary composer Frank Zappa. She won The Aspen Comedy Award for Best Alternative Comic and has written for Details and Harper's Bazaar. She lives in L.A.