The Line that Held Us by David Joy

David Joy has made a quick assent from Ron Rash’s star student at Western Carolina University to a writer called upon by NPR, Time, and Garden and Gun to illuminate the South. The Life that Held Us, his third novel, is a Book-of-the-Month selection! Set in Western North Carolina, this novel begins when Darl Moody accidentally shoots and kills a ginseng digger instead of the monster buck he was hunting. When he realizes that he has killed a member of the vengeful and violent Brewer family, he enlists his friend Calvin Hooper. "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. “Exquisitely written, heart-wrenching . . . Joy’s descriptions are lyrical and lingering.”—Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. “A suspenseful page-turner, complete with one of t