A review by judyward
Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger by Lee Smith

4.0

This is a collection of short stories--seven new stories and seven culled from three earlier short story collections by Lee Smith. These are stories to be savored and I took my time reading this book. I tried to limit myself to one story a day so that I could think about and appreciate each story before dipping into the next. The stories capture individuals at various stages of life from a young boy to the Mrs. Darcy of the title who is trying to adjust to the recent loss of her husband in her own individual way. And her way, by the by, is driving her three daughters absolutely crazy. All of the stories are set in the South and are populated by those eccentric, quirky characters that fill the pages of southern literature and make us love it so.