{"product_id":"st-christopher-on-pluto-9781949199260","title":"St. Christopher on Pluto","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*2021 Colorado Book Awards Finalist, Literary Fiction*\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e MK and Colleen get reacquainted while working at different stores in a bankrupt mall. Way back, the women went to Catholic school together and collaborated on racy letters to a soldier in Vietnam who thought they were much older than seventh graders--a ruse that typifies later shenanigans, usually brought on by red-headed Colleen, a self-proclaimed \"Celtic warrior.\"\u003cp\u003eAfter ditching Colleen's car to collect the insurance, they drive from one unexpected event to the next in Big Blue, MK's Buick clunker with a St. Christopher statue glued to the dash. The glow-in-the-dark icon guides them past the farm debris, mine ruins, and fracking waste of the northern brow of Appalachia. Yet their world is not a dystopia. Rather, MK and Colleen show why, amid all the desperation, there is still a community of hope, filled with people looking out for their neighbors and with survivors who offer joy, laughter, and good will.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNancy McKinley is a founding fiction faculty member at Wilkes University, where she teaches at the Maslow Family Graduate Program in Creative Writing. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eTravels with a Nuclear Whore\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Thayer Fellowship in the Arts, and is a recipient of the Newhouse Award from the John Gardner Foundation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"West Virginia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50903617634578,"sku":"9781949199260","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8ed319fa-cf52-45fe-8bbe-e085421e506e.jpg?v=1738500036","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/st-christopher-on-pluto-9781949199260","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}