Grace That Enters Through the Wound

In 1955, from a dairy farm called Andalusia outside Milledgeville, Georgia, a young Catholic woman named Flannery O'Connor published a short story collection that disturbed nearly everyone who read it. A Good Man Is Hard to Find was filled with con artists, murderers, and self-righteous grandmothers. Critics wondered why a woman of deep faith wrote stories so drenched in violence and human ugliness.…