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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Currently re-reading: Kafka on the Shore and After Dark by Haruki Murakami, plus assorted short stories of Eudora Welty and Katherine Anne Porter  |
I have a strange relationship with Welty. Being from the South, but being educated and liberal, I despise all of those old down home stereotypes, even though I am one. However, as she is Southern and her writings remind us of our grandmothers, her work is assigned reading from high school all the way through college. The thing is this: I Love Her!
A stream of pure truth runs through all of the cornbread and syrup in her stories. For instance, a woman decides that she is fed up with the way things are going at home, so she moves into the post office building and takes control of her own life. That should be required reading in every home for battered women all across the nation. It is empowering.