Penny asked David Joy:

I just read your review on My Sunshine Away and as I reviewed it as well, yours being way better of a review then mine, I immediately knew you were an author. I'm now very intrigued to read one of your books. Which book would you recommend I read first?

David Joy Neal (M.O.) is an incredible guy and one hell of a writer. We share a publisher and have novels debuting about a month apart so we became quick friends. We're actually reading together in New Orleans at Octavia Books here in about a month. Anyhow, if you're approaching my work coming out of My Sunshine Away, then you'll definitely want to read Where All Light Tends To Go, which releases on March 3 from Putnam. Neal and I are coming out of the same vein of literature, though our stories and how we approach those stories are worlds apart. We're both very much rooted in the South and branching from writers like Barry Hannah and Larry Brown and Harry Crews and William Gay. So if you enjoyed his novel, I imagine you'll enjoy Where All Light Tends To Go.

If you're into fishing, the outdoors, and trying to understand our relationship to the natural world, Growing Gills may very well be right up your alley. It came out of a vein of literature with writers like John Gierach or Harry Middleton or Dave Ames, where a collection of essays work together to function as memoir with fly fishing being used as a vehicle to illuminate self.

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