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Winner of the 2023 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction
Winner of the 2023 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award
Winner of the 2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Award
From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small North Carolina community and the…
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Joy offers an unflinching look at modern Appalachia through a compelling narrative that twists through a small, mountain town's dark shadows. Joy knows this place and these people. This brave telling brings to light the seen, yet often unnamed undercurrent of racial animosity that persists among those we think we know. This can be a hard read for what it stirs up. But it is all-too-relevant, a work of fiction ripped straight from the headlines, and as well-told a story as you'll see anywhere.
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