The Blue Plate

About this book

The Blue Plate is the last thing standing on its stretch of Route 66, a chrome and blue diner that outlived the road it was built to serve, kept alive out of stubbornness and love by Ruby Callahan, thirty eight, who took it on when her grandmother Junie died and has watched it empty out year by year as the town died around it, and who is, when the story opens, quietly deciding that she cannot keep it open past the winter. And into that failing diner, one afternoon, comes Daniel Hart, forty four, off the road, with an old photograph and an impossible errand.