Dec 29, 2009

A Worn Path | What Do I Read Next?

"Why I Live at the P.O.,'' a critically acclaimed story by Welty, in which a young woman's difficult relationship with her parents is exposed with humor.

Carson McCullers also writes of the Southern experience although from a different point of view. Her novels The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and Reflections in a Golden Eye were written in the same era as Welty's first stories.

"A Rose for Emily," a short story by fellow Southerner William Faulkner is also about an older single woman.

Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved examines the...