| Contents |
Preface: Raised to leave: some thoughts on "culture" -- Dimestore -- Recipe box -- Kindly nervous -- Lady lessons -- Marble cake and moonshine -- Big river -- On Lou's porch -- Lightning storm -- Driving Miss Daisy crazy, or, Losing the mind of the South -- Good-bye to the sunset man -- Blue heaven -- A life in books -- Angels passing -- The little locksmith. |
| Abstract |
"Evenly divided between a book about Smith's process and her life, first as a Southern mountain child and, later, as the parent of a schizophrenic child, this book is interesting and compelling. Despite being surrounded by loving family and being blessed with an active imagination, Lee copes with a mentally ill mother. Later, her son's mental illness and early death brings her to the breaking point but she is saved by her writing. This is a read-alike for Karr's The Liars Club. It desperately needs a cinematic translation for its elegant and evocative writing."--Lois Gross for LibraryReads, NoveList. |
| Local note | Joyner Rare copy includes autograph of Lee Smith on title page and dust jacket. |
| General note | Subtitle from book jacket. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare copy gift of Catherine Billingsley, 2/18/20 |
| LCCN | 2015023739 |
| ISBN | 9781616205027 |
| ISBN | 1616205024 |
