The Moving Memoir You Must Read (Plus, 6 Other New Favorites)
Real stories + real emotions + really beautiful writing = the
books that illuminate the lives of us all.
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Dimestore: A Writer's Life
By Lee Smith
224 pages;
Algonquin Books
In a series of narrative essays, acclaimed
storyteller
Lee Smith
revisits some of the settings (her father's store), artifacts (her
mother's recipes), and characters of her Appalachian
childhood.
— Dotun Akintoye
Published 03/21/2016
