First published 1999
A grandmother's plan to visit family in Florida is derailed when her car breaks down on a remote Georgia road. As she and her family wait for help, a menacing stranger appears, upending their lives in horrifying ways. In Flannery O'Connor's classic Southern Gothic tale, a deceptively ordinary outing spirals into a chilling confrontation with mortality, morality, and the human capacity for both grace and depravity.
Genres: fiction, american-fiction, 20th-century, southern-gothic
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, suspenseful
Tropes: dark-academia, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Florida, Georgia
Period: 20th-century
194 pages · Paperback · Faber & Faber
Content warnings: death, violence