She Come by It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

by Sarah Smarsh

Book Overview

The National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Heartland focuses her laser-sharp insights on a working-class icon and one of the most unifying figures in American culture: Dolly Parton.

Growing up amid Kansas wheat fields and airplane factories, Sarah Smarsh witnessed firsthand the particular vulnerabilities--and strengths--of women in working poverty. Meanwhile, country songs by female artists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1982157283
• ISBN13: 9781982157289
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

Not a biography of Dolly

I couldn't finish this book, nor could half my book club. The author tries to compare her circumstances of poverty to those of Dolly. While she portrays Dolly in a good light, it's hard to get past her whining and bitterness about her own past. Somehow though she was able to go to college, get books published and is a beautiful woman from looking at her picture on back cover. Don't waste your money or your time. Life is too short.