title: Dimestore: A Writer's Life
author:  Lee Smith 
description: <strong><a href="//www.amazon.com/b/?node=390919011">An Amazon Best Book of March 2016:</a></strong> What is it about Appalachia that so captures the mind, echoes in the ear, and lodges in the heart? Lee Smiths memoir metes out the answer to that question, touching on the elusive substance of Southern culture which so fascinates those of us outside of it and has inspired an entire subgenre of writing. Some of her essays ring with the raucous sounds of bluegrass, others with the sweet smells of home cooking passed down through generations--but Smith also bucks small town propriety by exposing the mental illness that plagued her family and by describing her sometimes fraught journey to becoming a beloved novelist. <em>Dimestore</em> is a love letter to the people and places that made a writer out of a small town Southern girl, and to the love, heartbreak, and power of creating her own stories that came after. <em>--Seira Wilson</em>
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   _Chasing the Dime_
  
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