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Wise Blood
by Flannery O'Connor
Hazel Motes is a young wanderer who ends up in a small Tennessee town to preach his gospel: the Church without Christ. In a book that unravels and slides into darkness, much like a Cormac McCarthy novel, Motes makes acquaintance with a lonely local 18-year old Enoch, who follows Motes around for companionship and to show him a mummified holy child. Motes simultaneously looks to blasphemy and escape Jesus while drawing attention to him all the same. As Motes falls further and further into literal darkness, those around him try to show him the light and himself, perhaps what he seeks most, he finds forced companionship with a young girl and then an older maid, both of whom try, with little success, to break into his stubborn, hardened core.