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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Lee Smith, author of twelve novels and four collections of short stories including <em>Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger </em>had this to say. “From its perfect first paragraph straight through to its hard-won resolution, <em>Mama’s Shoes</em> 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.”<span><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span></span>Amy Greene, author of <em>Bloodroot</em> said, “<em>In Mama’s Shoes</em>, 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.”</span></p>