"The best fiction, so far, to come out of the American counterculture." Chicago Tribune Book World. "This is one of those special novels-a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane-that you just want to ride off into the sunset with." Thomas Pynchon

Starring Sissy Hankshaw, flawless and beautiful (almost). This small-town girl with Big-time dreams and a quirk to match will hitchike her way into your heart, your hopes, and your sleeping bag. Featuring Bonanza Jellybean and the smoothriding cowgirls of Rubber Rose Ranch; Chink, lascivious guru of yams and yang; Julian, Mohawk by birth, asthmatic esthete and husband by disposition; Dr. Robbins, preventive psychiatrist and reality instructor. Follow Sissy's amazing odyssey from Virginia to chich Manhattan to the Dakota Badlands, where FBI agents, cowgirls, and estactic whooping cranes explode in a deliciously drawn-out climax.