Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger by Lee Smith

A southern-fried charmer!” - Family Circle “Smith’s character-driven tales are funny, touching and resonant, with a quirky honesty. It’s funny, shrewd, and heartbreaking-often all three at once.” - AARP magazine “A marvelous panorama of Smith’s achievement over four decades. Smith offers the grit of the domestic scene, the power of the written word, and the transcendent beauty of women as friends, lovers, daughters and mothers.” - Minneapolis Star Tribune “Lee Smith has long had a reputation as a master of the short story, and her new collection. It's funny, shrewd and heartbreaking-often all three at once.' -AARP The Magazine Her new collection, mingling seven previously published short stories with seven new pieces, offers a marvelous panorama of Smith's achievement over four decades. 'Like Chekhov, Smith can lay out a world of social and personal connections in a few pages. Smith's book, you suspect, is the one those club members would sneak under their bedcovers to read by penlight.' - New York Times Book Review 'Smith also has a soft spot for incorrigibles like the dyspeptic ex-writer of 'House Tour,' who resists playing reindeer games with the local philistines at Christmas, or the former teacher in 'The Happy Memories Club,' who refuses to placate an amateur writing group that appears to prefer its fare upbeat and scrubby-clean.

A southern-fried charmer!' - Family Circle 'Smith's character-driven tales are funny, touching, and resonant, with a quirky honesty. 'Smith's heroines find strength in the moments that push us all forward.' - People magazine

Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger by Lee Smith