I followed up A Miracle of Catfish over the weekend with Fay. Yet again, I am in awe of Larry Brown's storytelling. Somewhere on the hardcover jacket his style is described as 'Grit Lit,' but that's really more a nod to his subject matter than to his writing. Fay (the book AND the character) travels the edge of a razor -- frenetic in pace and inevitable in violence. I cain't hardly drink Jack Daniel's, but these books are the literary equivalent of that particular southern masterpiece.
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