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““She kept walking. Same old shit.”
Fay walked a lot. She walked in search of food and shelter. She walked away from the police. She ran from individuals who tried to harm her. She walked away from her family and her vile father. She walked and hitched rides from one end of Mississippi to the other. That’s a lot of walking.
This book is a sequel to https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19288050.Joe . Although Fay can be read as a standalone it is best to read https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19288050.Joe first to understand what made Fay to run off in the first place. The exploits of her father Wade, who is the most disgusting character I have read in recent memory, are clearly outlined. It is no wonder Fay just got up and ran off from her family.
Being young and pretty Fay is vulnerable walking on the side of the highway. Men tried to pick her up and take advantage. That is what made this book so suspenseful. You did not know what was going to happen. Larry Brown writes in a fashion that happy endings are not guaranteed. I always expected her to be found in a ditch with her throat slashed, or even worse.
My main complaint was Larry Brown’s tendency to describe every single detail in each scene. Details that do not have any bearing on the plot at all. It was so difficult to establish a rhythm and flow while reading since I was constantly slogging through these endless details. This book is just about 500 pages but if the fat was trimmed by the editor it could have been a more manageable length.
To be honest I probably would have given up if it were not for my love of the subject matter and my need to find out what happens to Fay. Now I’m glad I stuck it out to the end.
The pace changed dramatically during the last hundred pages. I whizzed through them last night with great anticipation of the ending. And what a goddamn ending that was!! Did not see that coming at all. Larry Brown hit me with a brick and left me hanging with no answers to my questions.
Rating: 3 Stars (“I Liked It”). It is sad that this was the last we will read about Fay due to the death of Larry Brown.”
About Larry Brown
was born in Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he lived all his life. At the age of thirty, a captain in the Oxford Fire Department, he decided to become a writer and worked toward that goal for seven years before publishing his first book,
, a collection of stories, in 1988. With the publication of his first novel,
, he quit the fire station in order to write full time. (The nonfiction book
tells the story of his many years as a firefighter.) Between then and his untimely death in 2004, he published seven more books. He was awarded the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award for fiction and was the first two-time winner of the Southern Book Award for Fiction, which he won in 1992 for
and again in 1997 for
. He was the recipient of a Lila Wallace-Readers Digest Award and Mississippi's Governor's Award For Excellence in the Arts. The story "Big Bad Love" became the basis for a feature film, as did his novel
.
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