02445nam 22004933 450 991016494960332120230809222715.00-698-18440-8(CKB)3710000001064347(MiAaPQ)EBC6044953(Au-PeEL)EBL6044953(OCoLC)980534397(EXLCZ)99371000000106434720210901d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Weight of This WorldEast Rutherford :Penguin Publishing Group,2017.©2017.1 online resource (227 pages)0-399-17311-0 "Critically acclaimed author David Joy, whose debut, Where All Light Tends to Go, was hailed as "a savagely moving novel that will likely become an important addition to the great body of Southern literature" (The Huffington Post), returns to the mountains of North Carolina with a powerful story about the inescapable weight of the past. A combat veteran returned from war, Thad Broom can't leave the hardened world of Afghanistan behind, nor can he forgive himself for what he saw there. His mother, April, is haunted by her own demons, a secret trauma she has carried for years. Between them is Aiden McCall, loyal to both but unable to hold them together. Connected by bonds of circumstance and duty, friendship and love, these three lives are blown apart when Aiden and Thad witness the accidental death of their drug dealer and a riot of dope and cash drops in their laps. On a meth-fueled journey to nowhere, they will either find the grit to overcome the darkness or be consumed by it"--Provided by publisher.Veterans--Fiction.Mothers and sons--Fiction.Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--FictionNorth CarolinaFictionAppalachian MountainsFictionPsychological fiction.Veterans--Fiction..Mothers and sons--Fiction..Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.813.6FIC019000FIC050000bisacshJoy David1245204MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910164949603321The Weight of This World2888104UNINA