Me and My Baby View the Eclipse Stories Author:Lee Smith It is Lee Smith's "love for her characters" -- as the San Francisco Chronicle wrote -- that gives her work "a down-home flavor, as satisfying as an old-fashioned Sunday dinner." And she certainly loves the people in the stories that make up her first collection since Cakewalk. — These are average folks whose average lives ... more »are suddenly shaken up by the eclipses that come to us all -- illness, death, divorce, the loss of faith, of children, of dreams. The stories of these eclipses -- sometimes uproariously funny, sometimes unbearably sad, occasionally visionary -- suggest that love can bring meaning to even the craziest lives.« less