
If I had a tattoo for every time I have told my students to read “Parker’s Back,” which is one of my absolute favorite Flannery O’Conner stories, I’d probably look just like O.E. Parker, the lead character in the story, whose body, by the time it’s over, is completely covered with them. But my students remain strangely resistant—at least until I’ve walked them through the story…

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