The View From Mount JoyThe View From Mount Joy

By 1972, when he graduated high school, Joe shared one thing with nearly all his male classmates: He had a crush on head cheerleader Kristi Casey. However, unlike the others, lucky Joe had actually briefly dated this nimble heartbreaker. Graduation snapped any romantic connection between them; but now, decades later, still unmarried, Joe nurses wistful memories of Kristi as he tends to his grocery business. Meanwhile Casey, now a winsome born-again radio evangelist, is married to a conservative senator ramping up for his first presidential run.