Lee Smith’s Fair and Tender Ladies. It’s an Appalachian writer, epistolary form. It’s a pretty specific setting and feel, so I don’t know if everyone would love it as much as I do, but it always feels like coming home to me. Follows a woman in the isolated hills of Appalachia from childhood to her death, all in her voice in letters and diary entries.
so beautiful. i’m inspired! 💕
also what’s the book you’ve been reading and rereading for 25 years?
Lee Smith’s Fair and Tender Ladies. It’s an Appalachian writer, epistolary form. It’s a pretty specific setting and feel, so I don’t know if everyone would love it as much as I do, but it always feels like coming home to me. Follows a woman in the isolated hills of Appalachia from childhood to her death, all in her voice in letters and diary entries.