Flyover People: Life on the Ground in a Rectangular State

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."If I were to choose one book to put in a time capsule to describe our state, it would be this one. As the decades pass, Cheryl's easy-to-read stories will become a descriptive and colorful memorial to Kansas nuances that are often overlooked." ~ Marci Penner, director, Kansas Sampler Foundation."Read this book slowly as you would sip your favorite beverage and savor the taste." ~ Dave Kendall, host and executive producer of Sunflower Journeys"Cheryl Unruh knows her people, their ways and their loves and losses. She is our reporter of the heart, and what she captures here in her words is nothing less than our Midwestern life." ~ Kevin Rabas, poet, co-director of Emporia State University's creative writing program Read more