Burning The Furniture

Burning the Furniture Dan Smiths third book is an off-beat creative memoir of growing up in the Old South in a large family amid poverty alcoholism racism and the very real joys of being a boy at a time when creative play was an activity and not a psychologists directive. It is a story of the newspaper business at a time of great change in a country that was occasionally on the verge of tearing itself apart in war and of social evolution. It is a work full of compassion humor pain and challenge by a writer able to look inside his own physical and psychological environment from a safe distance. Dan Smiths journey into and beyond active alcoholism is a story of redemption that is often almost physically painful and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny.