Submitted 12/27/2007 by: Dr. Glenn Swetman

"In Blue Eyes, Patricia Lieb (known for her no-nonsense true crime reporting, her sensitive and complex poetry and her exceptional initiation novel, And Her Name Was Catharine) has conceived yet another genera.

"Her latest, Blue Eyes, is a literary triumph, a genealogical mystery novel, and a record of the acute pangs of longing that make us human. Mary, the protagonist of the book, is engaged in a search for her identity both physically and spiritually as she struggles through her own kind of Pilgrim's Progress or Divine Comedy that takes her from the portals of
Purgatory to the brink of her personal Inferno.

"But not only is this a book that should be read, it is a book that is exceptionally readable. The words seem to leap from the page to the reader's eye and from there to the very soul: a must for the serious reader. A must for anyone who reads."

Dr. Glenn Swetman
Author, poet and Writer in Residence
William Carey College
Gulfport, Mississippi