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David Joy's 'Where All Light Tends To Go'

David Joy's new book tells the story of a young man working for his father's meth ring in rural North Carolina.
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David Joy's new book tells the story of a young man working for his father's meth ring in rural North Carolina.

A conversation with author David Joy

David Joy's new book tells the story of a young man working for his father's meth ring in rural North Carolina.
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David Joy's new book tells the story of a young man working for his father's meth ring in rural North Carolina.

Jacob McNeely grew up in the mountains of North Carolina.

A life of crime as an employee of his father's meth ring is the only one he has ever known. But a violent event and a reunion with his first love offer McNeely the possibility of escape. 

McNeely is the protagonist in Where All Light Tends To Go (Putnam/2015), a new novel by North Carolinian David Joy. 

Guest host Phoebe Judge talks with Joy, who reads at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill tonight, the Regulator Bookshop in Durham tomorrow and Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh on Friday. 

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Laura Lee began her journalism career as a producer and booker at NPR. She returned to her native North Carolina to manage The State of Things, a live daily statewide show on WUNC. After working as a managing editor of an education journalism start-up, she became a writer and editor at a national education publication, Edutopia. She then served as the news editor at Carolina Public Press, a statewide investigative newsroom. In 2022, she worked to build collaborative coverage of elections administration and democracy in North Carolina.

Laura received her master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland and her bachelor’s degree in political science and J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Phoebe Judge is an award-winning journalist whose work has been featured on a numerous national radio programs. She regularly conducts interviews and anchors WUNC's broadcast of Here & Now. Previously, Phoebe served as producer, reporter and guest host for the nationally distributed public radio program The Story. Earlier in her career, Phoebe reported from the gulf coast of Mississippi. She covered the BP oil spill and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for Mississippi Public Broadcasting and National Public Radio. Phoebe's work has won multiple Edward R.Murrowand Associated Press awards. Phoebe was born and raised in Chicago and is graduate ofBennington Collegeand theSalt Institute for Documentary Studies.