Author Event With David Joy
When: 6:30 p.m. Friday, May 1
Where: Parnassus Books
Fate versus will is a conflict as old as storytelling, but that doesn’t make the struggle any less real for those trapped in it. You only have to look as far as the headlines from any poor rural community to see the human costs: An AIDS outbreak linked to intravenous drug use in Scott County, Ind., is currently a national story.
David Joy, a former student of Ron Rash, gives those lives an eloquent voice in his debut novel, Where All Light Tends to Go. As the son of a calculating meth chef and a burned-out addict in a tiny North Carolina mountain town, Jacob McNeely sees no way around swallowing his disgust and taking his part in the cycle of corruption and violence. The only one who believes he can break away is Maggie Jennings, the girl he’s been in love with as long as he can remember. But can he leave with her, knowing his family is destined to fall in on itself like an abandoned shack?
Learn more when Joy reads and signs copies of the book tonight at Parnassus.
