Straw in the Sun A Memoir

In Straw in the Sun, Charlie May Simon never indulges in the easy dichotomies that poison our own politics and culture, for she finds neighborliness, knowledge, and beauty wherever she turns in rural Perry County, Arkansas. She indelibly captures the lives of hill folks while also underlining the truth that all of us are simply passing through this world, standing between the generations before us and the generations to come." -Guy Lancaster, author of American Atrocity: The Types of Violence in Lynching and editor of the online CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas