But there's a lot she doesn't know about, such as sex, despite having had to fight her father off twice when he tried to rape her and having also watched another girl have sex with one man after another. Unlike her brother Gary, Fay is not illiterate, having finished the fifth grade, and she at least knows what a toothbrush is. In Brown's novel, Joe, Fay is the daughter of the destitute Jones family who runs away after another fight with her father. As the New York Times Book Review once put it, he's "a writer absolutely confident of his own voice.
Set mostly in the seedy beach bars, strip joints, and massage parlors of Biloxi, Mississippi, back before the casinos took over, Fay is a novel that only Larry Brown, the reigning king of Grit Lit, could have written. She'll make it, whatever making it means, because Fay's got what it takes: beauty, a certain kind of innocent appeal, and the instinct for survival. Fay herself is sighted for the last time in New Orleans. At the end of this suspenseful, compulsively readable novel, there are five dead bodies stacked up in Fay's wake. And finally there's a strip joint bouncer who deals on the side. There's a crop duster pilot with money for a night or two on the town. There are truck drivers who pull over to pick her up, no questions asked. There's a highway patrolman who gives her a lift, with a detour to his own place. But help's not hard to come by when you look like Fay. She's headed for the bright lights and big times and even she knows she needs help getting there. Even in 1985 Mississippi, two dollars won't go far on the road. She lights out alone, wearing her only dress and rotting sneakers, carrying a purse with a half pack of cigarettes and two dollar bills. The following graduates are listed by degree program.She's had no education, hardly any shelter, and you can't call what her father's been trying to give her since she grew up "love." So, at the ripe age of seventeen, Fay Jones leaves home. The following graduates received either a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), a Master of Science in Nursing (MNSc) or a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree.
The following graduates received their Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree. Graduates are divided by college and hometown unless otherwise noted. The following are graduates of the five UAMS colleges and graduate school who authorized the release of their names and hometowns.
Students listen to an address during the 2023 commencement ceremony.
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