An accidental death, and the cover-up that follows, sparks a dark series of events that reverberates through the lives of four people who will never be the same again.
David Joy is the author of The Weight of This World,Where All Light Tends to Go, and The Line That Held Us, an Edgar finalist for Best First Novel. His stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in a number of publications, and he is the author of the memoir Growing Gills- A Fly Fisherman's Journey.
“Unflinching . . . Joy writes about rough-hewn men and women eking
out a living in an economically depressed area, trying to avoid—but
often affected by—violence and drugs that permeate the region.
Their lives are tied to the land, its history and their families
who established lives there decades ago.”—Associated Press
More Praise for The Line That Held Us
“A suspenseful page-turner, complete with one of the absolutely
killer endings that have become one of Joy’s signatures.”—Los
Angeles Times
“Exquisitely written, heart-wrenching . . . Joy’s descriptions
are lyrical and lingering.”—Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
“David Joy’s novel brought me to my knees. Exquisitely written and
heart-wrenching, it reminded me of Faulkner in its dark depiction
of family loyalty — that “old fierce pull of blood.” . . . Joy’s
descriptions are lyrical and lingering. . . . In the end, the line
that holds Joy’s characters may be fraught and frayed, but its pull
is fierce.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Joy has proved adept with southern noir in his first two novels,
and he nails it again here, in the actions of characters who act as
they must, for the sake of family and friendship, given their
nature. This is fiction as beautiful and compelling as it is
searing.”—Booklist (starred review)
"Poverty, class, violence, addiction, isolation: No one writes
about the issues facing rural America as clearly, as fairly, or as
well as David Joy. The Line That Held Us plumbs the depths of
friendship and family, uncovering truths that are stamped on the
page with blistering realism."—Wiley Cash, author of The Last
Ballad
Praise for The Weight of This World
“Bleakly beautiful. . . [a] gorgeously written but pitiless novel
about a region blessed by nature but reduced to desolation and
despair.”—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
“Darkly stunning Appalachian noir.”—Huffington Post
“Scenes unfold at a furious pace, yet contain such rich description
that readers will do well to read slowly, savoring Joy's prose. . .
. Joy's work perfectly aligns with the author's
self-described ‘Appalachian noir’ genre, as a sticky film of
desperation and tragedy cloaks everything his characters touch.
April, Aiden and Thad are hopelessly conflicted, dripping with
history and heartache, yet they cling to unique dreams about what
life could look like if they carried a bit less weight of the world
upon their shoulders.”—Associated Press
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