Title: Dimestore
Description: Evenly divided between a book about Smith's process and her life, first as a Southern mountain child and, later, as the parent of a schizophrenic child, this book is interesting and compelling. 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.
Subjects: Large type books, American Novelists, Childhood and youth, Biography, Social life and customs, Virginia, biography, Virginia, social life and customs, Authors, biography
Places: Grundy (Va.)
People: Lee Smith (1944-)
Time periods: 20th century