Category Archives: Smith, Lee
Lee Smith. On Agate Hill.Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books, 2006.
Molly Petree, the orphaned daughter of a Confederate soldier, begins writing her diary in 1872, on her 13th birthday. From that point onward, Molly chronicles her life in post-Civil War North Carolina, both at Agate Hill–her uncle’s plantation located near … Continue reading
Filed under 2000-2009, 2006, Historical, Orange, Piedmont, Smith, Lee
Lee Smith. Saving Grace. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1995.
Florida Grace Shepherd had a rough childhood. Raised by a father who was a snake-handling preacher and abused by her half-brother, she managed to escape by marrying at seventeen. Set in the fictional mountain town Scrabble Creek, N.C., the novel … Continue reading
Filed under 1990-1999, 1995, Mountains, Novels Set in Fictional Places, Smith, Lee
