Fay
Fay, age 17, flees her abusive father and a life of poverty in Mississippi, planning to hitchhike out of town. She is picked up by a state trooper and his wife who are grieving over the death of their own daughter. The hapless Fay, however, moves on, and she becomes involved with a drug dealer in the last spiral of her descent into despair and failure. Brown`s searingly realistic novel--his fourth--is his first to be told from the point of view of a female protagonist.

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1. \Fay\, n. [F. f['e]e. See {Fate}, and cf. {Fairy}.]
   A fairy; an elf. ``Yellow-skirted fays.'' --Milton.
   

2. \Fay\, n. [OF. fei, F. foi. See {Faith}.]
   Faith; as, by my fay. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
   

3. \Fay\ (f[=a]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {fayed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Faying}.] [OE. feien, v.t. & i., AS. f[=e]gan to join,
   unite; akin to OS. f[=o]gian, D. voegen, OHG. fuogen, G.
   f["u]gen, Sw. foga. See {Fair}, and cf. {Fadge}.]
   (Shipbuilding)
   To fit; to join; to unite closely, as two pieces of wood, so
   as to make the surface fit together.
   

4. \Fay\, v. i. (Shipbuilding)
   To lie close together; to fit; to fadge; -- often with in,
   into, with, or together.
   {Faying surface}, that surface of an object which comes with
      another object to which it is fastened; -- said of plates,
      angle irons, etc., that are riveted together in shipwork.