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Imagination as Survival: Stephanie Clare Smith’s Undrowned Memoir

In a candid conversation, the author of Everywhere the Undrowned reveals how she transformed childhood abandonment into a powerful memoir.

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Her father was a Pentecostal minister who never told a lie in his life. Until he did. And it was so big, it stayed with the family forever.

This time is tied to that time, and this creature to another—that’s what this Appalachian laureate shows us in two poems about children, grandchildren, a dog, and our own bodies.

Norman Blake is a veteran keeper of the Tennessee mountains’ musical traditions. And a young act, the Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, is championing the same heritage.

As a child, she saw only the difference between the simple food in her home and the fancier fare on her friends’ tables. Years later, she would see more clearly.

Is renewing an old friendship always the right thing to do? Maybe not.

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In a candid conversation, the author of Everywhere the Undrowned reveals how she transformed childhood abandonment into a powerful memoir.

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Imagination as Survival: Stephanie Clare Smith’s Undrowned Memoir

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