St.Christopher on Pluto

*2021 Colorado Book Awards Finalist Literary Fiction*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 gradersa ruse that typifies later shenanigans usually brought on by red-headed Colleen a self-proclaimed Celtic warrior.After ditching Colleens car to collect the insurance they drive from one unexpected event to the next in Big Blue MKs 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.