A review by spauffwrites
A Good Hard Look by Ann Napolitano

5.0

The best literary history novel I've read in a really long time. It takes a lot of finesse (and nerve) to write a novel with Flannery O'Connor as one of your main characters, but Napolitano definitely succeeds. The writing is dark and gorgeous and she writes characters that would be at home in any O'Connor short story. It's the kind of book you can either hunker down with for a few days and finish, or savor in bits and pieces over weeks, and it will make you want to reread O'Connor when you're through.