Fay's men traces the adventures and misadventures of fay watkins, a texas-born dancer and spiritual seeker, on the poignantly funny, circuitous path to self-realization. prompted by her naïve, almost quixotic idealism, fay's quest inspires hasty decisions in love and a disillusioning spiritual encounter that nearly knocks her off course. undaunted, she boldly pursues her goal, journeying from home to an initiatory stint as a revolutionary in mexico, then to new york, where she leaps into marriage with a wacky psychiatrist, then to an israeli zen center and a japanese monastery, followed by a hilariously disastrous trip to paris with her zen master, and an unintended admission as a patient in the psychiatric ward of her husband's hospital-an experience that finally propels her to self-discovery on a palm-fringed beach in hawaii.