A family sets out on a road trip in the American South. The grandmother suggests they change course in order to avoid "The Misfit", an escaped convict who's reportedly heading towards Florida. But when their car turns over in a ditch, who should they flag down for help but the very man whose picture they recognise from the paper . . .
Flannery O'Connor's famous fifties story evokes heat and dust, family and feuding, God and grace - and is utterly uncompromising in its brutality.
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The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida.
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(@FaberBooks, 7 March 2019, ebook, 23 pages, bought from @AmazonKindle)
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This is a new author for me. I've heard a lot of praise heaped on her but have never gotten round to reading any of her work. I've heard of this story, of course. I thought this was an amazing story, it blew me away. I will definitely read more of her work. The story starts of innocently enough with a family taking a road trip together and takes a dark turn when they crash their car at the side of the road. Things just get darker and darker. My heart was in my throat as I read. The brutal, tragic outcome is inevitable but I couldn't stop reading.
