Saving Grace - Paperbackby Lee Smith (Author) This is why I have had to come back now, traveling these dusty old back roads one more time. For I mean to tell my story, and I mean to tell the truth. I am a believer in the Word, and I am not going to flinch from telling it, not even the terrible things Florida Grace Shepherd, eleventh child of the itinerant, snake handling Reverend Virgil Shepherd, grew up traveling across the Appalachian South. In her heart, she raged against