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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Joy, David, date.
Where all light tends to go / David Joy.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-698-18258-5
1. Fathers and sons—Fiction. 2. Drug dealers—Fiction. 3. North Carolina—Fiction. 4. Appalachian Mountains—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3610.O947W54 2015 2014023349
813'.6—dc23
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.