Name: Book discussion Sponsored by The Buckner Award Committee: David Joy's "Those We Thought We Knew"
Start: 2026-02-19T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 4418 Park Ave, Wilmington, NC, United States, North Carolina 28403

Book discussion Sponsored by The Buckner Award Committee: David Joy's "Those We Thought We Knew"

Members of the Buckner Award Committee will be joining us for a "Book Club" type discussion of David Joy's"Those We Thought We Knew", in advance of Joy's Buckner Lecture on Feb 25. Joy's novel explores the cracks that form in a small North Carolina community and the evils that unfurl from its center. After two horrific crimes split the county apart, every soul must wrestle with deep and unspoken secrets that stretch back for generations. "Those We Thought We Knew" is 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?
David Joy will NOT be in attendance.