Helpful Score: 3
Flannery O'Connor at her best - the twisted short story. I had read a few of these in high school and they always stuck with me. Re-reading them some ten years later I'm struck at the timelessness desperation of the characters. O'Connor was a master at capturing the twists of human nature, and this is one of those collections that more people should read.
Helpful Score: 2
Excellent, entertaining, thoughtful short stories. The one, in particular that struck me as her most powerful is "The River," a disturbing story of a baptism seen in a different way.