The Weight Of This World by David Joy
Set in a hard-scrabble Appalachian environment, this book follows a cast of characters who are worn down by grief, addiction, poverty and violence; in tight, urgent prose it traces how past mistakes, loyalty and desperation shape the small but brutal choices people make, offering a bleak yet compassionate portrait of lives constrained by place and circumstance and of the heavy moral and emotional burdens they carry.
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