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Sweet Eyes
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.
- GenresFiction
405 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1991
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Jonis Agee
21 books97 followersJonis owns twenty pairs of cowboy boots, some of them works of art, loves the open road, and believes that ecstasy and hard work are the basic ingredients of life and writing.
Born in Omaha, Nebraska, she grew up in Nebraska and Missouri, places where many of her stories and novels are set. She was educated at The University of Iowa (BA) and The State University of New York at Binghamton (MA, PhD). She is Adele Hall Professor of English at The University of Nebraska — Lincoln, where she teaches creative writing and twentieth-century fiction.
Awards include three books chosen as New York Times Notable Books, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Nebraska Book Award, Nebraska Arts Council Merit Award, Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship in Fiction, Loft McKnight Award of Distinction, and Editor's Choice Award from Foreword Magazine.
Born in Omaha, Nebraska, she grew up in Nebraska and Missouri, places where many of her stories and novels are set. She was educated at The University of Iowa (BA) and The State University of New York at Binghamton (MA, PhD). She is Adele Hall Professor of English at The University of Nebraska — Lincoln, where she teaches creative writing and twentieth-century fiction.
Awards include three books chosen as New York Times Notable Books, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Nebraska Book Award, Nebraska Arts Council Merit Award, Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship in Fiction, Loft McKnight Award of Distinction, and Editor's Choice Award from Foreword Magazine.
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June 12, 2022
Dense, complicated, honest. I usually enjoy the writing in Ms Agee’s books but this was difficult and I skimmed most of it. She writes such descriptive phrases and paints pictures with her words.
She also finds the darkest parts of us and looks directly at those places. I wanted to like this book but I didn’t like it as much as her others.
She also finds the darkest parts of us and looks directly at those places. I wanted to like this book but I didn’t like it as much as her others.
October 26, 2009
I really did not enjoy this book. It was the story of small-town life in Iowa with characters who really went nowhere in life. The only thing that I liked about it was the last chapter where the main character finally walked out of the fog and realized what was best in life for her.
July 17, 2009
FABULOUS! One of my top ten! This woman is a fabulous writer!
January 10, 2011
Almost quit after a few pages. Pretty dark after having read a "feel good" novel. Glad I stuck with it. Depressing images of life in corn country growing up in a dysfunctional family.
July 6, 2012
I love Jonis' short stories, but found this first novel just too meandering.
February 9, 2017
this went nowhere slowly.
May 14, 2007
I had Jonis Agee as a professor in college and really enjoyed this book.
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