“Where You Come from is Gone”: What Flannery O’Connor Taught Me about Mothers

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Notes

¹ This was a keynote talk and reading from my novel The Accidentals given at the American Literature Association Symposium “Flannery O’Connor and Families” on June 18, 2021 in Savannah, Georgia. I’d like to especially thank program director Marshall Bruce Gentry and the following sponsors, in addition to the ALA: Andalusia, Home of Flannery O’Connor, Georgia College; the Andalusia Institute, Georgia College; the English Department, Georgia College; Georgia College; Georgia Humanities; the Savannah Book Festival; The Flannery O’Connor Review; the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home; and the Southern Literary Trail.