“A child's appetite for new boots, shoes, and sneakers is every bit as keen as his appetite for praise, and in my experience it is just as pleasant to lavish all three on him.”

About Jane Smiley

Author • American

Jane Smiley is a highly acclaimed American novelist and essayist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel 'A Thousand Acres,' a modern retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear. Her prolific body of work...