Tag Archives: Silver Alert

After I finished Backman’s novella, I still had several hours left of travel.  Enter Lee Smith’s Silver Alert (Algonquin 2023), which I downloaded on Libby.  A North Carolina resident, Smith’s writing vibrates and roars with the Southern gothic and grotesque – the voices her writing bring to life echo Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner, loudContinue reading “SILVER ALERT – Lee Smith”