Hurray for Wilma Dykeman! This book cuts through all the old stereotypes of Southern Appalachian women and life. She gives grace and respectability to women of the mountains. I put off reading this book for years, and now can't believe I did. Althoug...
In a novel even more timely now than when it first appeared, Wilma Dykeman interweaves past and present. The Clayburn family perseveres to create a canning company in the Great Smoky Mountains of the South at the turn of the last century, while in th...