Dimestore

A memoir that shines with a bright spirit, a generous heart and an entertaining knack for celebrating absurdity.The New York Times Book ReviewThis is Smith at her finest.Library Journal, starred review Set deep in the mountains of Virginia, the Grundy of Lee Smiths youth was a place of coal miners, tent revivals, mountain music, drive-in theaters, and her daddys dimestore. When she was sent off to college to gain some culture, she understood that perhaps the richest culture she would ever know was the one she was leaving. Lee Smiths fiction has always lived and breathed with the rhythms and people of the Appalachian South. But never before has she written her own story. Dimestores fifteen essays are crushingly honest, wise and perceptive, and superbly entertaining. Together, they create an inspiring story of the birth of a writer and a poignant look at a way of life that has all but vanished.