Mama's Shoes
From its first perfect paragraph straight through to its hard-won resolution, Mama's Shoes is an absolutely wonderful novel, its setting a beautifully realized small Appalachian coal town, its characters so vivid they're practically jumping off the page. There's conflict aplenty here too - between mother and daughter, truth and lies, rich and poor, past and present - as thirteen year old Sassy tries to determine the truth of who she really is. Rebecca Elswick captures her readers by writing straight from the heart. - Lee Smith, Author of Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-eyed Stranger and The Last Girls
