A Regular Guy

Tom Owens had dropped out of college to invent, right in his parents' basement, a new kind of business; it was no time to suffer any distractions, much less to legitimize the family he in fact had already started on his own. So he stayed on in the sleepy, Edenic valley town of his youth, and it was here that Owens became famously successful, his charisma and peerless business acumen also creating a seductive, if aimless, political persona. Then, suddenly, a raggedy grade-schooler turns up smack in the middle of his hectic life, claiming to be his daughter. Born in an Oregon commune, Jane has…