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Memoirs Too Powerful to Put Down

A Prayer Journal

By Flannery O'Connor

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 112

If you've already read everything ever written by Flannery O'Connor and crave more, take heart: This recently discovered diary of her long-form letters to God will make you especially thankful this season. A Prayer Journal offers insight into O'Connor's desire to balance her love for God with her far-greater love of writing, as she asks Him, "help me to love & bear with my work...If I have to sweat for it, dear God, let it be as in Your service."  

— Abbe Wright

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