A Good Hard Look: A Novel

Forced by illness to leave behind a successful life in New York, literary icon Flannery O'Connor has returned to her family farm in the small town of Milledgeville, Georgia. With her health and time both limited, all she wants is to be left alone to write.

But Melvin Whiteson, a banker from Manhattan who recently married the town belle, soon upends Flannery's plans. Melvin is at loose ends with his new life; although he has every opportunity, he's not sure where to begin. Flannery knows exactly what she wants but is running out of time. Through their unusual and clandestine friendship, both will come to reflect on the decisions they have made and the paths they have chosen.