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Rated A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories 8/10

O’Connor is, and writes about and from the perspective of, a white woman in the midcentury South, and these stories both critique that worldview and emerge from it, particularly regarding the Black characters.<br/><br/>The stories themselves remind me of George Saunders or Roald Dahl or even Miranda July - bleak and off-kilter, with the viewpoint characters justifying their peculiar actions to themselves and being surprised at the consequences.<br/><br/>I’d read the titular story several times since high school but the others are all new to me.

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Published 2026-08-18 14:43 UTC · bridged from Atmosphere