{"product_id":"those-we-thought-we-knew-9780525536932","title":"Those We Thought We Knew","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2023 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2023 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2024 Sir Walter Raleigh Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small North Carolina community and the evils that unfurl from its center. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eToya Gardner, a young Black artist from Atlanta, has returned to her ancestral home in the North Carolina mountains to trace her family history and complete her graduate thesis. But when she encounters a still-standing Confederate monument in the heart of town, she sets her sights on something bigger. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Meanwhile, local deputies find a man sleeping in the back of a station wagon and believe him to be nothing more than some slack-jawed drifter. Yet a search of the man's vehicle reveals that he is a high-ranking member of the Klan, and the uncovering of a notebook filled with local names threatens to turn the mountain on end. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e After two horrific crimes split the county apart, every soul must wrestle with deep and unspoken secrets that stretch back for generations. \u003ci\u003eThose We Thought We Knew \u003c\/i\u003eis an urgent unraveling of the dark underbelly of a community. Richly drawn and bracingly honest, it asks what happens when the people you've always known turn out to be monsters, what do you do when everything you ever believed crumbles away?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Joy \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eWhen These Mountains Burn\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the 2020 Dashiell Hammett Award), \u003ci\u003eThe Line That Held Us\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the 2018 SIBA Book Prize), \u003ci\u003eThe Weight of This World\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWhere All Light Tends to Go\u003c\/i\u003e (Edgar finalist for Best First Novel). Joy lives in Tuckasegee, North Carolina.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"G.P. Putnam's Sons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50878311923986,"sku":"9780525536932","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_88ca6fbf-9460-465d-8a3b-2e94b8d3492b.jpg?v=1738280414","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/those-we-thought-we-knew-9780525536932","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}