TY - SER KW - single parents KW - graphic designers KW - widows and widowers KW - cancer AU - Daniel Jones AB - After a graphic designer loses his wife to breast cancer, he impulsively buys a hippie van and takes his two young kids for a long road trip west to Rocky Mountain National Park. C1 - 1990s C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Sharpsburg; O’Hara Twp.; Greenwood Cemetery; Fox Chapel C4 - Literary; Road; Psychological CY - New York LA - English M3 - Novel N2 - After a graphic designer loses his wife to breast cancer, he impulsively buys a hippie van and takes his two young kids for a long road trip west to Rocky Mountain National Park. PB - William Morrow PP - New York PY - 2000 RN - Daniel Jones (1962— ) grew up in Pittsburgh where his father, Charles O. Jones, worked as a political science professor at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the founding editor of the popular New York Times weekly column “Modern Love.” He lives in Massachusetts. EP - 291 p. TI - After Lucy ER -