The first Nathan Winer is murdered by Dallas Hardin and years later the son, also Nathan Winer, unwittingly finds himself working for Hardin. Worse, the boy is falling in love with the daughter of another man killed by Hardin on his path to set up a staging ground for all manner of corruption and toxic enterprise. The Long Home is a Southern Gothic portrayal of the classic battle between good and evil, and the extraordinary debut novel of William Gay (1941-2012).