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Summary: dust in the wind
Review: This is a sad novel that managed to grab hold of me. "Fay" isn't the kind of book I usually read. Nor the kind of book that male writers usually write. But it actually comes off pretty well and I'm glad I read it. Sure it's unrealistic in terms of all the crazy stuff that happens to one girl. But Larry Brown makes it feel very real, and in so doing, he makes you care about Fay and the rest of the cast.Fay blows around from place to place like one of those puffy dandelion seeds. What's awful for her is that once she does sprout somewhere and begin to thrive, she gets uprooted, and is quickly floating once again. That's the fate of a girl like Fay, I guess, and it reminds you of how unfair and random life can be.
Rating:
Summary: Good but not Great
Review: This is my first Larry Brown read and I liked it. It is a compelling story and Brown does a good job of painting his charachters as real people with elements of good and bad. The world these people live in is often dark and ugly and none of the main players are black or white. They all have moments of conscience and strength and moments of weakness. My main criticism is that he tends to over do it with the prose. Describing every minute detail is one thing in a short story, but at nearly 500 pages it tends to bog down a bit in a novel. All in all a good read though.
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