“This is Lee Smith at her best. Through the voice of Florida Grace Shepherd we relive her poverty stricken 1950s childhood in Scrabble Creek, North Carolina and later follow her through adolescence and her adult life. The brilliance of this story is in the childhood Grace describes as a daughter to a serpent-handling, evangelistic preacher. Though Grace is known to have her doubts, she loves her mother and father dearly and clings to the memories of the years she lived in a borrowed house on...”

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