Addie Author:Mary Lee Settle An autobiography that begins with one's birth begins too late...So begins Mary Lee Settle's stunning memoir, which interweaves her own life with those of her grandmother and other family members to create a colorful quilt of West Virginia life that spans more than a century. One of the most respected Southern writers of our age, Mary Lee Settle ... more »offers us a glimpse of American history--through the eyes of one fascinating family.
"A classic American memoir...to love as well as to read, a book to pass from hand to hand, generation to generation." --Boston Globe
"Settle has preserved for us a moment in the South's history palpable as the trumpet vines and rocking chairs of a long-departed front-porch afternoon." --New York Times Book Review« less