Fair and Tender Ladies
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Fair and Tender Ladies is a 1988 epistolary novel by Lee Smith. Told through letters written over some seventy years, it follows Ivy Rowe from her girlhood on a poor farm in the mountains of southwest Virginia to old age. Ivy writes to family, friends, lovers and a long-lost pen pal about hard times, love, motherhood, loss and her deep tie to the Appalachian land, revealing, letter by letter, a fierce, funny and unforgettable woman's whole life.
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- Dolly Parton: “The book that... I've re-read the most: Fair and Tender Ladies by Lee Smith.”