Wiley Cash's debut, hailed as "mesmerizing" (New York Times Book Review) and "as if Cormac McCarthy decided to rewrite To Kill a Mockingbird" (Richmond Times-Dispatch), made him a literary sensation. His new novel is a tale of love and atonement, a story of two sisters, a wayward father, and an enemy determined to see him pay.
When their mother dies unexpectedly, twelve-year-old Easter and six-year-old Ruby are shuffled into foster care. But just as they settle into their new life, their errant father, Wade, reappears and steals the girls away.
Now two men are on their trail but for very different reasons—one, a former detective and the girls' court-appointed guardian, who has linked Wade to a multimillion-dollar robbery and the other, a mercurial, angry man who is determined to claim his due. Narrated in alternating voices that are at once captivating and heartbreaking, This Dark Road to Mercy is a soulful story about the emo-tional pull of family and the primal desire to outrun a past that refuses to let go.
Wiley Cash is the New York Times bestselling author of A Land More Kind Than Home, the acclaimed This Dark Road to Mercy, and most recently The Last Ballad. He is a three-time winner of the SIBA Southern Book Prize, won the Conroy Legacy Award, was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and the Edgar Award for Best Novel, and has been nominated for many more. A native of North Carolina, he is the Alumni Author-in-Residence at the University of North Carolina Asheville. He lives in Wilmington, NC with his wife, photographer Mallory Cash, and their two daughters.
We’re still raving about Wiley Cash’s incredibly assured, character-driven debut novel, A Land More Kind Than Home — and we’re giving away NOOK book copies (while supplies last) on Friday, November 22nd as part of our nationwide Discovery Friday event. Wiley returns to the Discover blog with “The Kind of Thing You Still Write About”, an original piece on discovering — and being discovered.
One of the best parts of a bookseller’s gig is championing writers that haven’t yet become household names—and one of the ways we do that here at B&N is with our Discover Great New Writers program, and our annual Discover Awards. The Discover selection committee is made up of booksellers from around the country who […]
