Praise for Where All Light Tends to Go

"A remarkable first novel... This isn't your ordinary coming-of-age novel, but with his bone-cutting insights into these men and the region that bred them, Joy makes it an extraordinarily intimate experience." - Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

"[An] accomplished debut... In Appalachia, a young outlaw, Jacob McNeely, struggles to escape what Faulkner called that 'old fierce pull of blood,' a violent meth-dealing father, the dark legacies of an unforgiving place and the terrible miseries it breeds. A beautiful, brutal book." - Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Readers of Southern grit lit in the tradition of Daniel Woodrell and Harry Crews will enjoy this fast-paced debut thriller. Fans of Ron Rash's novel.".