Love vinyl cafe and love Dave. Best line of the book about his 16 yr old daughter, "she was mad about something- mostly nervous probably. Dave looked at her across the table, scowling into her cereal bowl, and his heart went out to the boys into whose lives his daughter was about to march. Somewhere, he thought, some poor kid who has no idea what is heading his way is calmly eating breakfast.". Ha. McLean makes me laugh out loud and want to cry at the same time. What more can you ask for in a book???