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As the parent of a young child with cystic fibrosis, this is the book I wish all my friends would read. This not only conveys my fears for my child, but also my hope for him to be a “normal” teenager, have his own dreams, fall in love, grow old, and everything else that a … Read More “Salt in My Soul: An Unfinished Life by Mallory Smith” »
Hill Women is a memoir about life in and around Appalachia, especially focused on the author, Cassie Chambers, and her mother and grandmother. Her memoir compares the lives of her grandmother (with very little education, who met her 30-something-year-old husband when she was a young teenager,) to her mother (who fought for a local college … Read More “Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers” »