Sweet Eyes

Reviews / Votes

"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 "A big, complicated book about small-town life, in the great American tradition of Faulkner, Willa Cather, and Sherwood Anderson." -Philadelphia Inquirer "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 "While Agee demonstrates that the roots of psychosis and violence often start within the family, she also makes a case for the family's importance-and for the necessity of self-esteem-writing with fearless precision and evocative detail."-Publishers Weekly "Sizzles and oozes like hot asphalt. . . . [A] funny and street-smart memoir."-Charlotte Observer