After Mystic River
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock
Mystic River hooked you with Boston's blue-collar fury and men haunted by childhood sins—now Pollock drags that same unflinching brutality into Appalachian backroads, where post-war trauma and corrupted faith breed cycles of violence no one escapes. Multi-generational depravity, psychological depth that justifies the rage, and the gritty honesty of lives crushed by the American Dream's broken promises.