But a chain of bizarre coincidences ends this Grieving over the accidental death of their teenaged daughter) essentially adopts her. State trooper Sam Harris finds her hitchhiking and brings her home, where his wife Amy (still Fay is a complete innocent, can scarcely read, has never Sequence that recalls the beginning of Faulkner’s classic Light in August. Novel by the highly acclaimed Mississippi author.īrown’s first substantial female protagonist, Fay Jones, is a 17-year-old virginal beauty who runs away from her mean andĭrunken father and impoverished family (migrant workers camped near Oxford, Mississippi) in a vividly detailed opening The search for love and family has seldom been portrayed with such harsh realism as in this almost literally stunning fourth
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