Title: Be sweet
Subtitle: a conditional love story
First published: 1998
Description: Roy Blount Jr. - Georgia boy turned New York wit, lover of baseball and interesting women, bumbling adventurer, literary lion, salty-limerick virtuoso and impassioned father - journeys into the past and his psyche (also all the way to China, sixty feet underwater and to various Manhattan hot spots) in search of the answers to three riddles that have haunted him intimately:.

One: the riddle of "the family curse." Two: the riddle of what drives him (or anyone) to be funny. Three: the riddle of what so cruelly tangled his unseverable bond with the beguiling, beaten orphan girl who became the impossible mother who raised him to Be Sweet.
Subjects: Humor, Homes and haunts, American Humorists, Biography, Childhood and youth, Wit and humor, Essays (single author)
Places: Southern States
People: Roy Blount
Time periods: 20th century