How did the author decide to weave together the multiple characters' stories in Knockemstiff?
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How did the author decide to weave together the multiple characters' stories in Knockemstiff?
Did anyone else feel unsettled by the relentless depiction of hardship and violence?
What inspired Donald Ray Pollock to set these stories in such a bleak, Gothic small town?