The Lost Country

How "The Lost Country" by William Gay was finally discovered and published more than six years after his death was almost as interesting as the book itself. His very dedicated friends basically had a scavenger hunt with his notebooks after he died and pieced it together and got it published.
Set in the south after WWII, Edgewater is supposed to be going home to see his dying father, but he gets distracted along the way, falling in with a huckster, getting a young lady pregnant and having to marry her, having her leave him after the baby is stillborn. The characters are colorful and his prose reminds me a lot of William Faulkner, so I really enjoyed it.