{"id":47954,"date":"2018-08-23T07:42:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T13:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=47954"},"modified":"2018-08-23T07:42:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T13:42:17","slug":"david-joy-signs-his-book-%e2%80%8bthe-line-that-held-us-in-conversation-with-ace-atkins-at-off-square-books-on-thursday-august-23-at-5pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/david-joy-signs-his-book-%e2%80%8bthe-line-that-held-us-in-conversation-with-ace-atkins-at-off-square-books-on-thursday-august-23-at-5pm\/","title":{"rendered":"David Joy Signs His Book “\u200bThe Line That Held Us” (in conversation with Ace Atkins) at Off Square Books on Thursday, August 23 at 5pm"},"content":{"rendered":"

From critically acclaimed author David Joy<\/strong> comes a remarkable novel\u00a0<\/span>about the cover-up of an accidental death, and the dark consequences\u00a0<\/span>that reverberate through the lives of four people who will never be the\u00a0<\/span>same again.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When Darl Moody went hunting after a monster buck he\u2019s chased for\u00a0<\/span>years, he never expected he\u2019d accidentally shoot a man digging\u00a0<\/span>ginseng. Worse yet, he\u2019s killed a Brewer, a family notorious for\u00a0<\/span>vengeance and violence. With nowhere to turn, Darl calls on the help of the only man he knows\u00a0<\/span>will answer, his best friend, Calvin Hooper. But when Dwayne Brewer comes looking for his\u00a0<\/span>missing brother and stumbles onto a blood trail leading straight back to Darl and Calvin, a\u00a0<\/span>nightmare of revenge rips apart their world. The Line That Held Us<\/em> is a story of friendship and\u00a0<\/span>family, a tale balanced between destruction and redemption, where the only hope is to hold on\u00a0<\/span>tight, clenching to those you love. What will you do for the people who mean the most, and what\u00a0<\/span>will you grasp to when all that you have is gone? The only certainty in a place so shredded is that\u00a0<\/span>no one will get away unscathed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

David Joy is the author of The Weight of This World and Where All Light Tends to Go, an\u00a0<\/span>Edgar finalist for Best First Novel. His stories and creative nonfiction have appeared in a number\u00a0<\/span>of publications, and he is the author of the memoir Growing Gills: A Fly Fisherman\u2019s Journey.\u00a0<\/span>Joy lives in Sylva, North Carolina.\u00a0\"The<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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