Lecture: Exploring Flannery O'Connor's Themes in Modern Day Cuba
When: Sun., Nov. 19, 4 p.m. 2017
Melanie Bowden Simón will discuss how her own personal experiences in Cuba echoed Flannery O’Connor’s remarkable power to find grace and beauty in life’s darkest moments. Drawing on her own experiences with love and loss, Simón will share a universal story that resonates with Southern-inspired themes that define O’Connor’s fiction.