A review by quodfelix
Collected Works: Wise Blood / A Good Man is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear it Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays and Letters by Sally Fitzgerald, Flannery O'Connor

2.0

Some excerpts from her letters published in The New Yorker magazine made me want to read some of her works. The excerpts described a writer eager that her understanding of her faith came through in her stories. With the exception of the first story I read, "A Good Man is Hard to Find," I had difficulty seeing it clearly. Questions of redemption and forgiveness were food for thought after its shocking ending. "Everything that Rises Must Converge" made me think with its examination of segregation and the relationship between a mother and son, but the other stories left me befuddled, so I've put this down after reading 7 stories.