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The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Girls presents one of her most compelling novels, acclaimed by Anne Tyler, Annie Dillard, and more...
Everywhere about her, from the traffic on Highway 460 to the river that's gone black with coal dust, Crystal Spangler sees a current flowing from the mountain town of Black Rock into the wider world. As a teenager, she is elected beauty queen, gets good grades, and-despite her many enviable qualities-manages also to be well-loved. Everyone knows that she is destined to leave town and do great things.
And she does.
But no one expects her return; drawn back home by some sort of memory, as if the current that had taken her away had changed its mind...
- Sales Rank: #938163 in Books
- Published on: 2012-03-06
- Released on: 2012-03-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.77" h x .86" w x 5.07" l, .55 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
Review
"The closest thing to reading this would be reading Madame Bovary while listening to Loretta Lynn." — Roy Blount, Jr.
"Black Mountain Breakdown is like a country song. It is true and real; it is loving and sad." — Annie Dillard
From the Inside Flap
Crystal Spangler lives in rural Appalachia. She's the apple of her mother's eye -- not yet beautiful, but she will be. She's the most popular girl at Black Rock High. She makes cheerleader, gets good grades, and is elected beauty queen. Crystal discovers God, goes to college, and falls in love. When she comes home, she's disheveled and confused. Crystal becomes a wealthy politician's wife. But there's something calling her, drawing her back to where it all began, in the shadow of Black Mountain . . .
From the Paperback edition.
About the Author
Lee Smith is the author of The Last Girls, Oral History, Fair and Tender Ladies, and other novels, and a recent story collection, Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger. She has won the O. Henry Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction, the North Carolina Award for Literature, and the Southern Book Critics Circle Award.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
A Book So Haunting I Had to Experience it More than Once.
By Reviews No More
Smith's character Crystal Spangler is many things, but boring is not one of them. My first reading of this story, I felt a lot like the reviewers here who didn't like the book. The strange thing was that, try as I might, I couldn't forget about it, and went back to it again in the last few days. What is this story about, besides life in the Appalachians and the locals who inhabit it? It's about a circle that's sometimes clear and sometimes fuzzy that is nevertheless complete.
Agnes and Crystal are best friends for life, but we see from the very beginning that big, frumpy Agnes is more well grounded and stronger than her pretty blond, blue-eyed friend who is given to overreacting to her father's dark poetry readings and need to be taken care of by others. Early on, Agnes is a sort of surrogate mother for her. Crystal's father is a heavy smoking alcoholic who has withdrawn into his own space, dependent on both Crystal and his wife Lorena's attention as he slowly chooses to slip away from life. The three Spangler children are effected by him and Lorena's co-dependant enabling in different ways. Jules is bitter, angry, and prefers men to women, ashamed of his family and home. Sykes is flighty and given to following any direction the wind blows in, but he calms down eventually. Crystal is a lot like Sykes, but she isn't as strong because she is raped by an uncle in her junior year of high school, and then, having blocked the entire incident from her mind, goes home to find her father dead.
Crystal will become a floater: months after the blocked out assault and Grant Spangler's death, Crystal will break up with her steady boyfriend Roger Lee, but doesn't know just why. My guess is that she feels he's too closely tied with both the conscious and unconscious incidents. She will begin a somewhat remote and intimately charged relationship with a local bad boy who eventually leaves her for country stardom in Nashville. Constantly needing something to hold onto (like she held onto her daddy's robe upon finding him dead and having a nervous breakdown), she discovers Jesus, then she discovers random male partners. Crystal is empty and just doesn't care. She drifts like a leaf on the wind, always desperate for something to hold onto, constantly anxiety ridden and sometimes lost in a world of hallucinations. She takes up with a hippie radical who ends up hanging himself and has another nervous breakdown.
She returns to the Appalachians and becomes a school teacher, one of the few times she is finally together and admirable, because she genuinely cares about her students. There's just one problem with Crystal; every time things are going half-well, she finds a way to screw it up. A phone call from Jules, her hippie brother boyfriend telling her she's doomed. These things all stick in her mind. We also see Agnes's point of view through this all, sometimes jealous, but mostly knowing all along that Crystal lets other people put ideas in her head that harm her. Crystal is always way too vulnerable despite her strengths.
What goes around comes around full circle. Roger Lee still loves her and dumps his family for her. For a while she is happy with him, but eventually things happen similar to their high school years. Once again, a chain of events makes her overly anxious, and then she recalls the forgotten incidents...
This book is an eery and painful portrait of a young girl who came from a highly effected, dysfunctional home and, through a series of unfortunate circumstances, can never quite take control of her own life, always needing someone else to take care of her. If you are uncomfortable with this story, perhaps it's because you see elements of yourself in Crystal. All too often, I admit I do. What gets me most is how she always ends up talking like her father, beginning sentences with "Listen...," how she never outgrows the need to have men tell her stories, and how Agnes is the one who ends up taking more care of her in the end than her mother. Full circle, and a sad one at that. More disturbing is how nothing, save for the heat of the moment, ever seems to fulfill her for long. People like this are more real than we want to believe, and Lee Smith has brought this home in a bittersweet and unforgettably prosaic style. If you like books that don't end with a glass slipper and a prince, I urge you to give this one a try. Crystal Spangler is not always likeable, but she definitely isn't forgettable.
20 of 25 people found the following review helpful.
Like Reading a Piece of Myself, or Someone I Know...
By c.harvey@usa.net (Christine Harvey)
I am from Richlands, VA, the little town neighboring Lee Smith's hometown of Grundy. This was the first book that I read of Lee's, and it inspired me to read the others. They are all wonderful books. It seems like I can actually hear the voices of her characters coming right off the pages at me. I guess it's just because I've actually known people like them. The Appalachian dialect and culture are captured simply, yet eloquently, the way they should be. I am a writer of Southern-Appalachian fiction myself, not published yet, but I hope to eventually. Lee Smith has been a real inspiration for me to continue my own works. I reccomend this book or any of her others to anyone, not just the ones who hail from a rural background. They're sure to give a greater appreciation of Appalachian people and culture, and maybe even ourselves. Thanks very much.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
LEE SMITH SIMPLY DOES NOT WRITE BAD BOOKS ! ~~~~
By Pamela A. Poddany
I love Lee Smith's books. She captures life and all the curves it can and does throw at us.
BLACK MOUNTAIN BREAKDOWN deals with Crystal, a young teenage girl living in the Appalachias. She is beautiful, she is popular, she is kind, she is sweet. She is a cheerleader, she dates any boy she wants to, she gets good grades. EVERYONE loves Crystal! She is just a golden girl and not one that you can't stand because she has it all. Crystal is just well loved by everyone in her small Southern town.
But Crystal has her demons, or rather the demons have Crystal. While young teenage Crystal is visiting her two doting aunts who live in another small town, she has a life-altering horrific event happen to her. What I liked about how Lee Smith handled this situation was this - she never mentions what happened to Crystal; however, it is assumed. Then, towards the end of the book, that event is brought to light and explains a lot of why Crystal has a breakdown.
After this event that really mentally/emotionally hurts Crystal and then with the death of her father, she slowly but surely starts to loose her grip on life. She becomes more and more detached about her life and people around her. She dates constantly. She initiates sex with these young boys and they can't get enough of her. However, Crystal is still the most popular girl in town and adored by men/women and boys/girls. No one seems to notice how Crystal is loosing it, or actually having a nervous breakdown.
She goes through boys, having sex with most of them, not caring, not worrying about it, and not truly even "being" there. She breaks the hearts of all of them. She has tons of friends, but has a true and steadfast friend in Agnes who lives right next door to her. Agnes is the opposite of Crystal -- dowdy, serious, righteous, but she loves Crystal and looks after her always. Everyone should be blessed to have a friend such as Agnes.
Crystal's condition worsens as she goes through her life. Events come and go and she just flits through her life, detached and not caring. She leaves her home town for a while, basically loosing contact with friends and family. However, after years, she returns home and seems to get things together for herself mentally by teaching. She turns out to be a great and very caring teacher. You find yourself rooting for Crystal and hoping she can handle life! However, life throws more at Crystal.
In the end, Crystal does just break down as the title suggests. This is not a happy book; however, it is an excellent book. It is a fast, short read and one I will recommend to friends and family. Lee Smith is a great writer and you can tell that she puts her heart and soul into her work.
Thankfully, Lee Smith has a large list of books so you can sit down and enjoy more of her works. I haven't read one of her books yet that I did not like.
Thanks, Ms. Smith. More, please.
Thank you -- Pam
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