The View from Mount Joy

Author: Lorna Landvik

The View from Mount Joy, Lorna Landvikâ��s delightfully quirky and intensely moving new novel, is about a man, a supermarket, the roads not taken, and the great, unexpected pleasures found in living a good life. When hunky teenage hockey player Joe Andreson and his widowed mother move to Minneapolis, Joe falls under the seductive spell of Kristi Casey, Ole Bull Highâ��s li….Read More

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