Understanding Women
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For review from Fort Worth Star-Telegram, go here
For review from Booklist, go here
For review from Dallas Morning News 9/27/98 go here
Winner of the 1998 Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Novel from the Texas Institute of Letters.
Winner of the Border Regional Library Association Award for Outstanding
Book about the Southwest.
"C.W. Smith’s Understanding Women is a well-wrought coming-of-age novel set in Texas and New Mexico in the 1950s, replete with the classic yearnings and angst of a teen-aged boy eager to learn lessons of love and life he often finds difficult if puzzling. Smith’s tale rings true as to the repressive politics of the time and place as his young protagonist, adrift in an oil-field culture, gropes with the pains and pangs of growing up." Larry L. King, author of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas; Kingfish; and The Night Hank Williams Died.
"This is a loving and courageous novel, rich in humor, savvy, sex and a social conscience. There’s a sweet sorrow in it like Tender Mercies, and a wonderful adolescent’s yearning that shapes the prose, helping it to soar. C.W. Smith is a gentle magician: he has created a beautiful work of art." – John Nichols, author of The Milagro Beanfield War, The Magic Journey, and Conjugal Bliss.
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