The Long Home Simon Starr won a 1990 American Book

won a 1990 American Book Award

Does faith inhibit honest science

from outcast to establishment figure

moving to the peaceful Florida island is more than a business opportunity

The Long Home Simon Starr won a 1990 American BookIn a literary voice that is both original and powerfully unsettling, William Gay tells the story of Nathan Winer, a young and headstrong Tennessee carpenter who lost his father years ago to a human evil that is greater and closer at hand than any the boy can imagine until he learns of it first hand. Gay's remarkable debut novel, The Long Home, is also the story of Amber Rose, a beautiful young woman forced to live beneath that evil who recognizes even