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Sidney Saylor Farr. My Appalachia: A Memoir. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 7002 . 272 pages. Hardback with dust jacket, 53$ .00 . Reviewed by Mary Owens. Sidney Saylor Farr’s new memoir, My Appalachia, is a gift to any woman looking for the path out of oppression and into a self- confident life, but especially so for Appalachian women. Her depiction of life at Stoney Fork, in southeastern Kentucky, will draw those who grew up in the region back to their mountain roots. As a former editor of Appalachian Heritage (1985 through 1999 ) and the author of seven books, Ms. Farr has a solid reputation in Appalachian literature. Her memoir takes us to the hidden places of a woman’s heart as she grows from an insecure mountain girl to a spiritually and emotionally secure woman. We understand young Sidney’s life through the family stories that draw us into the book. On her family’s secluded farm in Bell County (“as far back in the ‘hollers’ as it was possible to go”), jokes, riddles, and wild tales of relatives and haints are shared as frequently as country ham and biscuits. She hears them on the porch after supper, or around
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 9, 2008
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