Where all light tends to go
David Joy
Literary Fiction
Where all light tends to go
by David Joy
—· 290 p· 2015
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Overview
About
"Set in North Carolina's Appalachian Mountains, eighteen-year-old Jacob McNeely is torn between appeasing his meth-dealing kingpin father and leaving the mountains forever with the girl he loves"--
Pages
290
Center Point Large Print
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
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Reader feel
Emotional depth9
Appalachian Atmosphere9
Prose8
Narration8
Moral Ambiguity8
Worldbuilding7
Pacing7
Plot twists6
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