Set in a small-town north carolina amusement park in 1973, joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student devin jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a d...Set in a small-town north carolina amusement park in 1973, joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student devin jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever. Joyland is a brand-new novel and has never previously been published.