I’m proud to have helped edit the last posthumous novel by William Gay, Fugitives of the Heart. It has been published by The University of West Alabama’s Livingston Press and is currently available at their store or at Amazon.
With this writing, William Gay has offered admirable homage to Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn. Marion Yates, a teenage orphan, is taken in by an ex-schoolteacher named Black Crowe. The boy in turn cares for Crowe when he is temporarily disabled by a dynamite blast. Every hardscrabble thing we have come to expect from Gay lies in this novel, including an offbeat and dark humor. With a forward by Sonny Brewer and afterward by JM White.
The William Gay Archive’s own Dawn Major has written an excellent review of the book herself for the Southern Literary Review.