Dimestore

Smith, Lee 1944- (author.).

Summary: A "book about Smith's process and her life, first as a Southern mountain child and, later, as the parent of a schizophrenic child...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"--Lois Gross for LibraryReads."--NoveList.

Item details

ISBN: 1616206462
ISBN: 9781616206468
ISBN: 9781616205027
ISBN: 1616205024
Physical Description: print
xvii, 202 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Edition: First paperback edition.
Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2017.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

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.