A review by sebastiandabookreader
Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor

challenging dark funny reflective tense

• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Read just the title story not the collection specifically, hopefully that's clear with this edition- it's good and the characters and situation are well-drawn and interesting but I most of the stories in A Good Man Is Hard To Find better, this had the ironic layer but wasn't as funny as some and something about the style or tone felt more cold and clinical, didn't feel as strange or ominous or spiritual as the some of the better ones. Anyway you don't need to read this as anti-integration but you certainly could