Sweet Eyes

by Jonis Agee

Overview

Sweet Eyes is the wondrous story of the young woman Honey Parrish, who becomes involved in an interracial love affair and struggles to solve longstanding mysteries in her hometown and to move beyond her family's troubled past.

Jonis Agee is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of several books, including Strange Angels, South of Resurrection, The Weight of Dreams, and Acts of Love on Indigo Road: New and Selected Stories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803259485
Publisher:	Nebraska Paperback
Publication date:	09/01/2003
Pages:	405
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 8.50(d)

About the Author

Jonis Agee is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the author of several books, including Strange Angels, South of Resurrection, The Weight of Dreams, and Acts of Love on Indigo Road: New and Selected Stories.

Editorial Reviews

“Sizzles and oozes like hot asphalt. . . . [A] funny and street-smart memoir.”—Charlotte Observer

Charlotte Observer

“A big, complicated book about small-town life, in the great American tradition of Faulkner, Willa Cather, and Sherwood Anderson." —Philadelphia Inquirer

Philadelphia Inquirer

"Physical closeness to the natural world underscores all the best imagery in Sweet Eyes. . . . Ms. Agee is a gifted poet of that dark lushness in the heart of the American landscape."—New York Times Book Review

New York Times Book Review

“This is a multileveled and sensitive novel about victimization and the struggle to defeat it. . . . [Agee] clearly shows herself to be a significant new novelist.”—Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune

“Sizzles and oozes like hot asphalt. . . . [A] funny and street-smart memoir.”—Charlotte Observer

Charlotte Observer

“This is a multileveled and sensitive novel about victimization and the struggle to defeat it. . . . [Agee] clearly shows herself to be a significant new novelist.”—Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune