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DimestoreLee Smith
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Dimestore

212 pagesFirst published 20162 editions
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A "book about Smith's process and her life, first as a Southern mountain child and, later, as the parent of a schizophrenic child...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"--Lois Gross for LibraryReads."--NoveList.

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FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionAlgonquin Books of Chapel Hill20172249781616206468
HardcoverAlgonquin Books20162009781616205027
American NovelistsChildhood and youthBiographySocial life and customsVirginia, biographyVirginia, social life and customsAuthors, biography