Lee smith israel

Lee Smith has repeatedly claimed that the story is the story-teller's, that people recounting the same event will tell it with drastically different details. The author of numerous novels and several collections of short stories, Smith tells the stories of the "other South": Appalachia, where, Smith writes in a recent article in Women's Review of Books, the only columns were on the Presbyterian church, where there was no once-landed aristocracy, and where there is a long tradition of storytelling and songwriting.

As Smith's work has increasingly reflected Appalachian themes, even her novels have become more like collections of stories, stories told by Smith's remarkable narrators, whose varied perspectives on shared experiences undermine any sense of a controlling, transcendent narrative.

Smith's narrators/protagonists are primarily women, and their stories balance self-expression against their duties towards men, their children, and their families.

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