Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'ConnorMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Flannery O'Connor has an obsession with Christian-themed violence (and okay that sounds terrible out of context lol). Technically speaking, it's weird, unless you buy into the messages she's going for and then it kinda works?
That aside, I think I actually wound up liking this collection overall more than A Good Man is Hard to Find, even though her last three stories in this one veer towards more conspicuously religious, introspective territory even by her own standards. Maybe it doesn't affect me as much cause I'm used to reading Christian themed works from my upbringing, but in any case, the uniquely Southern flavor of the themes explored here are as good as ever. My thoughts otherwise are more or less consistent with my previous review (see link above).
personal highlights: The title story, "The Lame Shall Enter First", "Revelation"
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