Mothers do have ideas about how things should be. In her new memoir Dimestore: A Writer’s Life, Lee Smith (Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, Ordinary Grace) shares some of the things her mother taught her: “I was not to use double negatives; I was not to say ‘me and Martha.’ I was not to trade my pimento cheese sandwiches at school for the lunch …
May 8, 2016
by jenniferpuryear
The Secret Ingredient: Dimestore, by Lee Smith
Book Title: Dimestore