Title: Cakewalk
First published: 1981
Description: First published in 1982, Cakewalk was the first short story collection by iconic Southern writer Lee Smith. Comic and observant, Smith's fourteen tales in Cakewalk introduce readers to a host of memorable Southern characters. Her protagonists include aging gossips, a soap opera-hooked housewife, a runaway teenager, and divergent sisters in various combinations. Smith's gutsy Southern women don't always triumph, but, with her sympathetic portrayals, readers gain appreciation for the merits of spirited perseverance, right or wrong, in the face of modern adversity.
Subjects: Fiction, Social life and customs, Women, Manners and customs, Fiction, general, Southern states, fiction
Places: Southern States
LC classification: PS3569.M5376 C3 1981