Fay

Larry Brown

Feb 2008 · Recorded Books · Narrated by Tom Stechschulte

About this audiobook

Larry Brown is hailed as one of today's most talented Southern writers. With the release of each book, including Dirty Work, Father and Son, and Joe, reviewers and fans offer increasingly enthusiastic praise for the astonishing characters he creates. At 17, Fay Jones leaves her family's squalid home with $3 in her bra and ragged sneakers on her feet. As she heads for Biloxi, people befriend her-a policeman, his wife, a bouncer-but her impact on their lives is seductive and unpredictable. Beautiful and naive, Fay becomes the catalyst in a chain reaction of desire and violence. Her journey provides unflinching snapshots of the South, from beaches to bar rooms. Wherever she lands, though, Fay is fueled by a deep-rooted will to survive. Narrator Tom Stechschulte voices every nuance of this unforgettable young woman's personality and her transient, often brutal, world.

Ratings and reviews

My experience feels personal. I feel that I can relate to this book, and I always have and always will love the person I feel truly wrote it. There's the other book, Joe, and this one, Fay. Makes me want to stand outside my house after a Friday night football game, back in high school, waiting for Joe, in the red little CRX, or many of assorted cars or trucks, waiting to be picked up in the night. I hope that awesome unforgettable guy in the letter jacket wrote these books. He is amazing to me.