{"product_id":"where-all-light-tends-to-go","title":"Where All Light Tends to Go","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel  Remarkable . . . This isnt your ordinary coming-of-age novel  but with his bone-cutting insights into these men and the region that bred them  Joy makes it an extraordinarily intimate experience.Marilyn Stasio  The New York Times Book Review  \"Lyrical  propulsive  dark and compelling. Joy knows well the grit and gravel of his world  the soul and blemishes of the place.\"--Daniel Woodrell  In the country-noir tradition of Winters Bone meets Breaking Bad  a savage and beautiful story of a young man seeking redemption.  The area surrounding Cashiers  North Carolina  is home to people of all kinds  but the world that Jacob McNeely lives in is crueler than most. His father runs a methodically organized meth ring  with local authorities on the dime to turn a blind eye to his dealings. Having dropped out of high school and cut himself off from his peers  Jacob has been working for this father for years  all on the promise that his payday will come eventually. The only joy he finds comes from reuniting with Maggie  his first love  and a girl clearly bound for bigger and better things than their hardscrabble town.  Jacob has always been resigned to play the cards that were dealt him  but when a fatal mistake changes everything  hes faced with a choice: stay and appease his father  or leave the mountains with the girl he loves. In a place where blood is thicker than water and hope takes a back seat to fate  Jacob wonders if he can muster the strength to rise above the only life hes ever known.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44985192185909,"sku":"ByrdShop_0399172777","price":27.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780399172779.jpg?v=1770851409","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/where-all-light-tends-to-go","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}