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In her first work of nonfiction, Lee Smith deploys the wit, knowledge, and elegant prose for which she is precious to conjure her start in the tiny coal town of Grundy, Virginia - and beyond. For the inimitable Lee Smith, place is paramount. For 45 years, her fiction has lived and breathed with the rhythms and people of the Appalachian South. But never before has she written her own history. Set deep in the solid Appalachian Mountains, the Grundy of Lee Smith's children was a location of coal miners, pile music, and her daddy's dimestore. It had been in that dimestore - listening to customers and inventing life histories for the store's dolls - that she began to learn the build of storytelling. Even though she adored Grundy, Smith's formal education and trips took her far from Virginia, though her Appalachian upbringing never left her. Dimestore's 15 essays are crushingly genuine, always sensible, and superbly engaging. Smith has created both a moving, personal portrait and a broader meditation on embracing one's history. Hers is an inspiring history of the birth of a article writer and a poignant take a look at a way of life that has all but vanished.
