How to Persist on Strange Paths Nobody Other Can Understand

O'connor was born in 19 25 to an irish catholic family in savannah, georgia. She grew up in a time when catholics were second class citizens. Her father aspired to become a writer, but he never wrote. The quality of the novel i right will derive precisely from the peculiarity, or the aloneness, if you will. Let us hold fast to mystery and persist in something exceptional - southern writers can still recognize freaks.