Flyover People
Life on the Ground in a Rectangular State
Published on 27. April 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-615-38534-1 (ISBN)
Description
While reading these essays about life in Kansas, you'll feel the breeze ruffle the hair on your arms, you'll picture the boiling clouds of a springtime thunderstorm, and hear the lullaby of cicadas on a summer night.
These 80 essays offer the Kansas experience. Cheryl Unruh tells about growing up in a small town and about living in a place that has more sky than land.
Flyover People: Life on the Ground in a Rectangular State received the 2011 Kansas Notable Book Award.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
309 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-615-38534-1 (9780615385341)
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Persons
For eleven years Cheryl Unruh wrote a weekly newspaper column, "Flyover People," for William Allen White's newspaper, The Emporia Gazette. Her books of Kansas essays, Flyover People and Waiting on the Sky, published by Quincy Press, both received Kansas Notable Book Awards. Cheryl's collection of poetry, Walking on Water, and her memoir, Gravedigger's Daughter, were published by Meadowlark Press. She is the editor of 105 Meadowlark Reader, a journal of Kansas creative nonfiction.