In the Sweet By and By (first volume of the 8-book comedy series "The Winsome Ways of Miz Eudora Rumph") will leave you clamoring for the next adventure. Set in NC?'s Smackass Gap (a real place in mountainous Clay County), Miz Eudora takes you on a zany journey of fun and laughter when she gets picked up by mistake, on the way home from husband Horace?'s funeral, by a busload of Red Hatters. It?'s all Preacher Jake?'s fault, for when he informs her that the funeral is to be a celebration, Miz Eudora leaves the black wool dress in the "blamed old cedar chest," stating, "I didn t know everybody was so glad Horace died " She shows up at the service in the most festive clothes she can find a purple "fopher" coat, a red hat, a "new, used red leather purse" and red orthopedic shoes to match With her sidekick sister-in-law, socialite Mabel Toast Jarvis (for whom she has little use), Miz Eudora will keep you in stitches from the first chapter to the last with her pure, simplistic spirit, her strong epitome-of-a-mountain-woman will and attitude and her golden nuggets of wisdom.
