But her ability to spin tragedy into comedy is challenged as never before in her new novel, "Silver Alert," as a motley cast of characters navigates a world filled with cruelty, pain and loss, while at least one stubbornly clings to her hope for a better future. Her characters are prone to shocking weaknesses, outlandish excesses and questionable decision-making, which makes readers love and root for them all the more. Lee Smith has a knack for mining the chaos and pathos of everyday life for rich veins of broad humor. He approached from time to time to hear better the story and, inevitably, he began to dream: great and majestic boats sailing the seas in the hands of hungry for fortune pirates stellar journeys immersed in an endless universe underwater cities inhabited by dolphins and zebrafish."SILVER ALERT" by Lee Smith (Algonquin Books, 224 pages, $27). In this way called his interest, which remained listening to the narration that the mother made to her children. They showed great attention while his mother read them a collection of children's stories. One day, while waiting for the farmer to feed them, he observed that in the yard of his house his wife was with her three small children. Do it every day and you will be making your mind stronger.įrom that day, after getting up at dawn and making his morning walk through the meadows, he was dedicated to look at the sky lying on the fresh grass, while daydreaming. The mother hesitated a moment and, after a moment, she said:
You must take advantage of the fresh air of the morning to fill your lungs with oxygen and thus face the day with great strength and joy. It is important to exercise the body - his mother said-, as much as exercise the mind.
Every morning he woke up at sunrise and accompanied his mother to walk the field to do some exercise. Simon was a very smart and playful little pig.
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