Joe Andreson is the central character in The View From Mount Joy. Beginning in 1972 during Joe's senior year, we meet a high-school hockey player who is the "new kid" in a Minneapolis school where jocks rule and the most popular cheerleader, Kristi Casey, leads all the fellas around by their penises. Joe and his mother have left their old lives behind after Joe's father is killed in a plane crash. As high school leads to college, careers and family, Joe embarks on a life he hadn't expected: A grocery store owner in the "small" town of Minneapolis. A grocery store he never meant to inherit from his high-school employer. Joe's life keeps moving back and forth between his best friend Darva and his high school f*%k Kristi (sorry for the graphicness). Joe struggles to find an "exciting" life like the ones his high school pals all found but in the end, his journey leads him to the place he had always known to be fulfilling - home. A place where family and values and friends are the greatest view of life to be had.
Read it...read all of Landvik's books...they're all funny and "feel good" and corny sometimes (we can all use a little corny - an escape that reading should bring, right?) You won't be disappointed.
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