Lee Smith Books
The Last Girls
By Lee Smith
On a beautiful June day in 1965, a dozen girls-classmates at a picturesque Blue Ridge women's college-launched their homemade raft (inspired by Huck Finn's) on a trip down the Mississippi. It's Gir...
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Saving Grace
By Lee Smith
Gracie's journey around the South with her father - a charismatic itinerant serpent-handling believer - is a kind of Appalachian pilgrim's progress through the dark places of the soul. She tells he...
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News of the spirit
By Lee Smith
In "Live Bottomless," thirteen-year-old Jenny tells the painful and hilarious tale of her philandering father's fall from grace and the family's subsequent trip to Keys West as her parents attempt...
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