Helpful Score: 4
This was an incredibly good novel about a young woman from the backwoods of Mississippi who leaves her rough, impovershed existence by hitting the road with 2 dollars and the clothes on her back. She is beautiful and totally naive and her unwitting sex appeal causes a chain of events that she never intended and is powerless to stop. She is a train wreck waiting to happen. I could hardly stand to put it down once I started it.
Helpful Score: 4
This book is a WONDERFUL STORY and shows how someone can survive against all odds---I felt so bad for Fay yet at times I was extremely proud of her and felt sad to see the book end especially since you come to love Fay as if she were real--hated to put it down--a thick book but worth every page.
Helpful Score: 3
Wow...what an amazing book. It pulled you into a world we know very little about and really don't see. The story of Fay is so engaging that I carried this book around with me for days not wanting to put it down. I only accidentally discovered this book here on paperbackswap.com and am so glad I did. I can not believe I only just found such an amazing story and hope that my review will do the same for many others. I think the book would make an awesome independent movie but that's probably hoping for too much!
Helpful Score: 2
This book totally drew me in to the fate of Fay. Unbelievably inexperienced in life and in many ways clueless but nevertheless I couldn't help being hopeful for her future. Seventeen and walking away from an a family where no one was there for her and her father was moving in on her in ways she knew to be wrong she strikes off on her own heading for Biloxi and a better life. Many false starts and disappointments down the long road and Fay is learning about life and not from the best teachers. An intense read. Much more sensual than my usual taste but not offensive as that was what the lessons were all about. Life and men and men and life.
Helpful Score: 1
Really, really good book. I'd never read Larry Brown until this book. You just get so caught up in it. His writing is magical.
