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1 online resource (260 pages) |
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Working against his will for his father's methodically organized meth ring, high-school dropout Jacob longs to pursue a better life with the girl he loves and faces a terrible choice in the aftermath of a dangerous mistake. |
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" "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 Winter's 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, he's 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 he's ever known"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
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Drug dealers -- Fiction.
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Drug dealers. |
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Fathers and sons. |
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North Carolina -- Fiction.
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Appalachian Mountains -- Fiction.
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Appalachian Mountains. |
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North Carolina. |
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Bildungsromans.
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Electronic books. |
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Fiction.
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Joy, David, 1983- Where all light tends to go New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2015] 9780399172779 (DLC) 2014023349 (OCoLC)881870501 |
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9780698182585 : $48.00 |
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0698182588 : $48.00 |
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