Flannery O’Connor’s illness and impending death brought an intensity and an urgency to her writing. Like Dante, O’Connor takes her readers through hell, purgatory, and heaven in almost every story.
She felt deeply and wrote passionately about the crucial decision we all have to make before we die: Are we for or against God’s grace?
That’s what matters. Everything else is a footnote.
Watch this quick video that sums up a short, but pivotal, life: