Newly-weds are difficult to avoid in Niagra Falls. Each year 500,000 freshly hitched sweethearts book into one of the 55 motels offering heart-shaped jacuzzis, tiger rugs and mirrored ceilings. That's 700 couples a day. Not the best place to be then, when your girlfriend rejects your proposal of marriage, and proposes instead that you go your separate ways.
His self-esteem heading south, Jim Keeble decides to follow suit, hoping that the United States - and the women of America - can help mend his broken heart. He says viva to Las Vegas and the showgirls of the 21st century; tries to catch a crab-catcher's daughter in historic Virginia, and cheers on an ex-cheerleader on a Dude ranch in Arizona.
Funny and romantic, INDEPENDENCE DAY is a true-life travelogue of a broken heart.
- 'INDEPENDENCE DAY is a funny and informative little book that manages to scrape the veneer off many of America's more ludicrous sacred cows … he's written a damn funny travel book.' TIME OUT
- 'Keeble provides a light and breezy mish-mash of tour guide statistics, solid observations and chuckle-worthy one-liners. His simple scene-setting is effective and the characters he meets on the road are rendered with similar earnestness' THE TIMES
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Published 06/12/2001