Light in August - William Faulkner

No trace of the long-named-county here although I suppose it's the same old south right away. The story runs in the depression days concerning a young girl who is searching for the father of her oncoming child. She's coming from Alabama and will end up in Tennessee. In the middle some events take place in Jefferson, Mississippi. But the girl Lena is only a second rate character in the novel. A mix of tormented literature and engaging narrative with the racism assumed as natural by the locals.