David Joy Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/david-joy/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:19:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg David Joy Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/david-joy/ 32 32 38398750 Those We Thought We Knew https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/12/those-we-thought-we-knew/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/12/those-we-thought-we-knew/#respond Fri, 15 Dec 2023 08:34:23 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18076 The residents of Jackson, a quiet county in the North Carolina mountains, are happy believing racism is largely in their past. Until that is, reality intervenes in David Joy’s new novel, Those We Thought We Knew. Joy uses the perspectives of three local characters: two white law enforcement officers and one Black woman to strip […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/12/those-we-thought-we-knew/feed/ 0 18076 When These Mountains Burn https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/08/when-these-mountains-burn/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/08/when-these-mountains-burn/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2020 04:29:30 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14714 There are few things I love more than an evocative writer. Someone who makes me feel what and where they’re writing about. Two that come to mind immediately: Pat Conroy in Prince of Tides, not only for the low country of South Carolina, but for New York when Tom goes there and Kent Haruf for […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/08/when-these-mountains-burn/feed/ 4 14714 Dark Fiction: The Line That Held Us https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/12/dark-fiction-the-line-that-held-us/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/12/dark-fiction-the-line-that-held-us/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2018 08:07:22 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=11900   I hadn’t planned on a week of reviews about dark (or difficult) fiction, but realized that’s where my reading had gone after finishing David Joy’s The Line That Held Us. It’s the story of Darl Moody, who while poaching on a neighbor’s land, shoots and kills another man. The man he kills is the […]

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