Black Mountain Breakdown

Name: Black Mountain Breakdown
Author: Lee Smith

by Lee Smith

Woman's mental breakdown and recovery in rural Appalachia and psychiatric care

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About the author

Lee Smith

Lee Smith is a North Carolina novelist who has written with warmth and comedy about Appalachian women's lives for more than fifty years. Oral History and Fair and Tender Ladies are her most celebrated works.

More by Lee Smith

Oral HistoryInterconnected voices reveal secrets of a West Virginia family across generations
Fair and Tender LadiesWoman's letter chronicle of love, betrayal, and survival in rural mountain life
The Last GirlsWomen's friendship trip down the Mississippi River reunites them with their pasts
On Agate HillOrphan girl's nineteenth-century coming-of-age in a North Carolina plantation household