Monica’s Reviews > 3 by Flannery O'Connor: The Violent Bear It Away / Everything That Rises Must Converge / Wise Blood > Status Update

Wise Blood: What a great book to finish on a rainy, windy Halloween night. Hazel Motes and the cast of characters he meets after his creepy train ride into a Twin Peaks-esque Southern small town are an odd and disturbing lot. The gifted, descriptive, eerie O'Connor drops the Southern Gothic gauntlet in this tale. The novel feels like a possible prologue for Faulkner's short story, "A Rose for Emily."