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” —Los Angeles Magazine“An addictively readable study of the path of this outsized talent

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Smoke from Small Fires Physical & Emotional Abuse (see also Social Themes ” —Los Angeles Magazine“An addictivelyIt's the 1950s. Picture Blackshale, Tennessee, with its home fires, small town ways, and postwar innocence the perfect place for a girl to grow up. From her earliest days, an artistic spark has been smoldering in Anna Grace Tollett, and when the mountain turns dark and unnerving, creativity is all she has to weather the hard times. As an adult, she describes her art: It is about the rituals of our lives, we who live in the tribes of Appalachia, and