A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories - Flannery O'Connor

First of two storybooks by this Catholic writer who died young (of lupus). Stories told vividly with southern scenes and protagonists. Mostly poor and quite ignorant people full of prejudices and sometimes a few blacks who merely survive. Cruel endings with some death and destruction, a keen sense of local language dialogue and humorous all the time. I have loved the stories.