A Good Hard LookA Good Hard Look

"Crippled by lupus at twenty-five, celebrated author Flannery O'Connor is forced to leave New York City and return to her family farm in Milledgeville, Georgia, where she writes and tends to her peacocks. Flannery's mother drags her to the wedding of family friend Cookie Himmel, the embodiment of Southern womanhood, and her rich fiancé Melvin Whiteson. But when he meets Flannery, Melvin starts to take a good hard look at the choices he's made"--Page 4 of cover.