Mama's Shoes
By the time SylviaRichardson is eighteen, she has buried her parents; given birth to a daughter;and become a widow. It is 1942, and World War II has destroyed Sylvia’s dreamof dancing in red high heels through life to the melody of a Hank Snow record.Instead, she is raising her daughter, Sassy, alone in the coal mining town shevowed to leave behind.
Lee Smith, authorof twelve novels and four collections of short stories including Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger hadthis to say. “From its perfect first paragraph straight through to its hard-wonresolution, Mama’s Shoes is anabsolutely wonderful novel, its setting a beautifully realized smallAppalachian coal town, its characters so vivid they’re practically jumping offthe page. There’s conflict aplenty here too – between mother and daughter,truth and lies, rich and poor, past and present – as thirteen year old Sassytries to determine the truth of who she really is.”
Spanning twenty years, Mama’s Shoesis a haunting tale of love,despair, and forgiveness as a cadence of female voices weaves a spell ofmountain lore and secrets, defines family as more than blood kin, and provessecond chances can bring happiness.
Amy Greene, author of Bloodroot said, “In Mama’sShoes, immensely talented debut novelist, Rebecca Elswick weaves anintriguing tale of buried secrets, at times both haunting and humorous, with acast of strong Southern women so real that I could almost hear them speaking tome.”
Praise and Reviews
Lee Smith, author
of twelve novels and four collections of short stories including Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger had
this to say. “From its perfect first 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.”
Amy Greene, author of Bloodroot said, “In Mama’s Shoes, immensely talented debut novelist, Rebecca Elswick weaves an intriguing tale of buried secrets, at times both haunting and humorous, with a cast of strong Southern women so real that I could almost hear them speaking to me.”
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