A review by melanie_page
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor by Sally Fitzgerald, Flannery O'Connor

Did not finish book.

4.0

I'm going to DNF at 25%. O'Connor keeps writing to someone named "A," a stranger who wrote to O'Connor on after reading Wise Blood, and the two kept up correspondence for nine years. However, "A" wished to remain anonymous when she gave the editor her letters from O'Connor, so I'm struggling to figure out who exactly she is and why O'Connor is so enraptured with her. Mostly, O'Connor's letters to "A" are full of her thoughts on religion, but without "A"'s end of the conversation, I'm not sure what the letters are getting at. I did enjoy the letters before "A" came along, as they gave me a good sense of O'Connor's personality toward children, writing, and publishing.