I am pretty sure that re-reading this about 15 years after first reading it, I definitely thought I understood it more than I definitely actually understood it. This novel is a few things: Southern, dark, crass, and Religious. Flannery O’Connor does not like fakers. Not at all. There’s obviously the Yeats quote that gets thrown around a lot about…well, here: The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Well ok, but there are no best. Flannery O’Connor’s writing does not […]