Smartass: Memoir of a Mouthy Girl

Perfect for anyone interested in the behind-the-scenes of the ballet world, a rousing memoir of a brash young ballerina from a dysfunctional family who achieves her greatest dream only to realize-as she begins to find success-that she's gay.

With a priest for a father and a magician for a mother, Emily Sayre Smith was always going to have an interesting life-for better and for worse. Here, she recounts what it was like coming of age in Texas and Arizona in the '50s, '60s, and '70s in a decid...