Jass Richards

A philosopher, a psychologist, and an extraterrestrial walk into a chocolate bar ... Jass Richards

Spike, a psychologist and activist, and Jane, a philosopher and writer, leave their dead-end temping jobs in Toronto and head for Paris - in their lunch break - by car, stopping frequently to stock up on chocolate.

En route they pick up X, an extraterrestrial from a planet where chocolate is one of the major food groups and testosterone is a prohibited substance. X is cosmically, galactically lost in Earth's backwardly gendered society.

Jane and Spike decide to take a detour and help X find astronomers and physicists who know the space-time coordinates for Earth, starting with America's top universities in Boston before trying NASA and CalTech. The more they travel, the further they seem to be from a solution to X's problem - and from Paris.

This out-of-the-ordinary road trip is chock-full of social, political and environmental commentary, feminist insights, and plenty of laughs.