Where All Light Tends to Go, (Paperback)

from kmajort

I picked this up because the author is from an area with which I'm familiar: Jackson County, NC. So reading of Lake Glenville, Sylva, Yellow Mountain Road.... I know these places! But I fall into the dreaded "summer people" catagory, at least in this area.Where I grew up, in the Blue Ridge Mounta...

from fhudnell

This is the second terrific book by this author that I've read and he has made me think more highly of grit lit (although I still think the genre is tainted by too many clichés and too much melodrama). Despite the violence that surrounds him, 18 year old Jacob is a sympathetic character, and beli...

from froxgirl

Where all the light tends to go is far, far away from this darkest of Southern Gothic novels. I am a big fan of other authors of this ilk: Larry Brown, Daniel Woodrell (author of Winter's Bone), and especially Ron Rash. There is something about the hollows and cabins that is so alien and fascinat...

from dldbizacct

I had a hard time getting into this book and gave up at one point but decided to give it another go. David Joy is a talented writer and tells a powerful story. I felt like the main character was a bit repetitive in his laments; he had a terrible childhood and terrible prospects and I get that, bu...

from gincam

Darkly compelling, "Where All Light Tends to Go" is an impressive debut from author David Joy. The story is told in first-person narrative, by a character who will break your heart. In rural Cashiers, North Carolina, Jacob McNeely is a young man with little choice but to help his father run the f...