A Hilarious Comedy About a Woman's Quarter Life Crisis.

Palmer Owyoung, an American author living in Singapore announces the release of his novel Halcyon Daze in Europe. A hilarious comedy about a woman having a quarter life crisis and her ensuing road trip.

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Village Market Press proudly announces the release of Palmer Owyoungs novel Halcyon Daze,an offbeat, and original comedy detailing the journey of a group of late twenty-somethings, living in San Francisco, trying to find themselves, and make sense of the world that surrounds them.

It begins with Kalani Smith, a half-Chinese half-Caucasian woman from Hiawatha, Kansas who is having a quarter-life crisis. She has just dumped her fiance at the altar, is about to turn thirty, has a dead end job, is bored with life and still hasnt had her first orgasm. So she leaves Hiawatha on a quixotic adventure in search of herself, her burgeoning sexuality, and to understand the meaning of the question that plagues her; what is a perfect life?

Juxtaposed against vignettes of her tumultuous past we follow Kalani as she drives across the country on her way to San Francisco and toward her dream of becoming a writer. Along the way she meets a motley cast of characters including an elderly Native American Medicine Woman, a cross- dressing ER doctor, and a stripper/psychologist.

Their search eventually leads them to Burning Man, this generations answer to Woodstock. Where they embark on a surreal adventure in the Nevada desert, and find an experiment in temporary community full of art, drugs, and a new perspective on life.

Reviews
"This book is humorous, witty and entertaining at it's finest...Palmer Owyoung deserves to be praised for Halcyon Daze" -The Writer's Room, Pamela James

"It is great! Really funny, and because of my sarcastic and strange sense of humor, books that are meant to be funny to me really aren't,but your novel was, I laughed my head off!!!!"-Annalia Beltran, Chicago

The author is originally from the San Francisco Bay Area and currently resides in Singapore. He has lived and traveled all over the world, including a two year stint as a Peace Corps volunteer in Namibia. Halcyon Daze is his first novel.

(Village Market Press ISBN: 0-9728487-0-3
$US11.95 paperback available at bookstores, on Amazon.com BarnesandNoble.com or directly from the authors website. The book is being distributed by Dragon Access in Singapore,Ingram and Baker and Taylor in the US and through Betrams in the UK.

Promotional copies available at no charge to all legitimate media outlets and reviewers. For more information contact Village Market Press at info@villagemarket.com. For interviews please contact the author directly at powyoung@hotmail.com or at 1-800-520-0818 x 1467 (US)
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