Nina Laurin studied Creative Writing at Concordia University in Montreal. She arrived there when she was just twelve years old, and she speaks and reads in Russian, French, and English but writes her novels in English.
Laurin's novel include A Woman Alone, The Last Beautiful Girl, What My Sister Knew, and The Last Thing She Saw.
At The Strand Magazine the author tagged ten favorite novels set in rural places. One title on the list:
Where All Light Tends to Go by David JoyRead about another entry on the list.
No list of rural noir would be complete without David Joy, and this evocative crime novel is a different take on Appalachia. The hero is desperate to escape his criminal family and the life they have set out for him, but it won’t come easily.
Where All Light Tends to Go is among Amy Allen Clark's top ten books of 2015 and Oline Cogdill's fifteen best mystery novels of 2015.
The Page 69 Test: Where All Light Tends to Go.
My Book, The Movie: Where All Light Tends to Go.
--Marshal Zeringue
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