<p>A storyteller in the very best southern tradition Lee Smith pens unexpected plots vibrant with luminous prose. Her powerful short stories in <i>Me and My Baby View the Eclipse</i> capture those extraordinary moments in everyday life when greatness and tragedy shimmer through the surface. </p><p>Richly satisfying each tale portrays ordinary people meeting trouble head on with courage and compassion: a teenaged girl coping with her father's nervous breakdown a housewife filling her humdrum days with an eccentric lover and a single mother struggling to hang onto her wayward son. </p><p>With narrators Linda Stephens' and Tom Stechschulte's brilliant performances these lyrical stories--made to be read aloud--will linger long in your memory. </p><p>The collection includes: Bob a Dog; Mom; Life on the Moon; Tongues of Fire; Dreamers; The Interpretation of Dreams; Desire on Domino Island; Intensive Care; and Me and My Baby View the Eclipse.