The book is A GOOD HARD LOOK and the author is Ann Napolitano. this is a work of fiction, but one of the main characters is the real life writer Flannery O'connor. I will confess I have never read anything by O'connor, who seemed to specialize in short fiction. I did see the movie "Seabiscuit" a true story about an underdog race horse that came from behind to win. In Napolitano's book, Flannery is the promising writer who went off to New York, and now has been forced by illness to return to her home, a small town in Georgia. She lives with her mother and tries to focus on her writing and ignore the neighbors. Flannery's one indulgence is her birds -- she has acquired a noisy flock of unique fowl, the most notable being a gang of noisy peacocks. The first half of the book moves along like a chronicle of small town life, but then, there is a virtual implosion which leaves two people dead, and nothing can ever be the same again. The book is well written and left me wanting to know more about Flannery O'connor.
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Sounds like an interesting book! I do recommend Flannery O'Connor's collection short storys, A Good Man is Hard to Find, on the basis of her craft, though I'll admit I'm not all that fond of the way she treats her characters.
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