{"product_id":"fay","title":"Fay","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[Larry Brown was] gifted with brilliant descriptive ability, a perfect ear for dialogue, and an unflinching eye . . . stark, often funny . . . with a core as dark as a Delta midnight.\" —\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e She's had no education, hardly any shelter, and you can't call what her father's been trying to give her since she grew up \"love.\" So, at the ripe age of seventeen, Fay Jones leaves home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e She lights out alone, wearing her only dress and rotting sneakers, carrying a purse with a half pack of cigarettes and two dollar bills. Even in 1985 Mississippi, two dollars won't go far on the road. She's headed for the bright lights and big times and even she knows she needs help getting there. But help's not hard to come by when you look like Fay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e There's a highway patrolman who gives her a lift, with a detour to his own place. There are truck drivers who pull over to pick her up, no questions asked. There's a crop duster pilot with money for a night or two on the town. And finally there's a strip joint bouncer who deals on the side.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e At the end of this suspenseful, compulsively readable novel, there are five dead bodies stacked up in Fay's wake. Fay herself is sighted for the last time in New Orleans. She'll make it, whatever making it means, because Fay's got what it takes: beauty, a certain kind of innocent appeal, and the instinct for survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Set mostly in the seedy beach bars, strip joints, and massage parlors of Biloxi, Mississippi, back before the casinos took over, \u003ci\u003eFay\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel that only Larry Brown, the reigning king of Grit Lit, could have written. As the\u003ci\u003e New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e once put it, he's \"a writer absolutely confident of his own voice. He knows how to tell a story.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Workman Publishing","offers":[{"title":"9781565121683","offer_id":22009816135,"sku":"9781565121683","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"9781565127326","offer_id":22009816199,"sku":"9781565127326","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1210\/1100\/products\/9781565127326-optimized_b9278830-cff7-4a53-8f4c-0b3427c9721a.jpg?v=1698377183","url":"https:\/\/workman-feed-prod.myshopify.com\/products\/fay","provider":"zzz_Workman Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}