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Title: Fair and Tender Ladies
Review: Lee Smith takes us on a historical fictional tour of rural south in the late 19th to mid 20th century through the life if Ivy Rowe. Ivy's life experiences are chronicled in letters to living and dead family and friends.Intelligent and independent Ivy's early life is a large family on a mountain top. The family leaves the mountain for a small town after her Father passes and farming on the mountain is no longer sustainable.Town life introduces the reader to a rich parade of characters that directly touch Ivy and her siblings. Ivy's complex nature and curiosity drives her to experience life on the edge, no matter the consequences.Lee Smith beautifully chronicles the life of a Steel Magnolia through Ivy Rowe and we are the better for it.
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