Jessica hosts fellow Flannery O'Connor fan, Karen Swallow Prior to discuss the author's final Novel, The Violent Bear It Away. The pair discuss O'Connor's use of her characters as God's friends, or the ones who suffer. They are not treated as a "Pollyana" but as characters that suffer which in turns prepares them to receive grace of God.
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