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Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative “I think Power in the Blood is a remarkable memoir. This is a big, human, and entirely revelatory book.” – Lee Smith “…lively and compelling” – The Feast (a Best of 2009 pick) A Southern Weave of Women: Fiction of the Contemporary South Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book, A Southern Weave of Women is one of the first sustained treatments of the generation of women writers who came of age in the post-World War II South as well as one of the first to situate southern literature fully within a multicultural context. A Southern Weave of Women considers the ways in which the women writers of the present generation reflect, expand, transform, and redefine long-standing notions of regional culture and womanhood. “A good introduction to a feminist reading of southern writers." – Library Journal
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Power in the Blood traces Linda Tate’s journey to rediscover the Cherokee-Appalachian branch of her family and provides an unflinching examination of the poverty, discrimination, and family violence that marked their lives. A dramatic family history that reads like a novel, Power in the Blood is innovative and groundbreaking in its approach to research and storytelling.
“...a literary masterpiece” – Story Circle Book Reviews
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“…her prose style is uncluttered and clear” – Mississippi Quarterly
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"Editor Linda Tate has made an excellent selection that affords us a rounded picture of Smith as a writer and as a person." – The State
