Dimestore: A Writer's Life
Publisher: Algonquin Books; Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781616205027
Description: 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.