Publisher's Synopsis
In this humorous and intelligent memoir from a consummate storyteller, Sheila Joyce Strunk captures the richness of language and the eccentricity of people and places she knew growing up in the mountain South. SWEET EVENING BREEZE bewitches from its opening dissertation on spirit. Strunk offers astonishing detail in the wry voice of the natural-born songwriter and storyteller. **** Two poets laureate enthusiastically recommend SWEET EVENING BREEZE: **** George Ella Lyon says, "There is so much to love about SWEET EVENING BREEZE: the author's affection for our history, her eye for the quirky and absurd in human character, her irreverent wisdom, her political and literary savvy. But what I find the most delicious about Sheila Joyce Strunk's memoir is the muscular music of her language. Lyrical, pithy, rejoicing in sound and rhythm, her words are alive and enlivening. Don't miss this book!" **** Gurney Norman says, "Sheila Joyce Strunk's memoir SWEET EVENING BREEZE is one of the most interesting and best written books I have read in a very long time. In her lively, vibrant voice she tells touching, funny, dramatic and always fascinating stories of her early life among colorful relatives and local people in the 1930s, '40s and '50s. The book is a river of stories of people, personalities, places and historic events that flow naturally together in Sheila Strunk's irresistible writing style. It is refreshing that the stories in Strunk's book come from her own prodigious human memory." (www.MotesBooks.com)
