Grace arrives violently in nearly all of these, whether on a back road, at a riverbank or deep in the woods.
1A Good Man Is Hard to FindA family road trip through Georgia ends in a fatal encounter with an escaped convict called the Misfit.1000pts
2Everything That Rises Must ConvergeA young man and his bigoted mother ride a newly integrated city bus in the 1960s South.814pts
3Good Country PeopleA cynical PhD with a wooden leg is outwitted by a traveling Bible salesman.666pts
4The RiverA neglected boy is taken to a riverside baptism by his babysitter and returns to the water alone.666pts
5The Displaced PersonA Polish refugee family's arrival on a Georgia farm unsettles everyone, amid the owner's strutting peacocks.0pts
6Parker's BackA tattooed drifter gets a Byzantine Christ inked on his back to please his severe wife.0pts
7A Circle in the FireThree city boys trespass on a Georgia farm and set the woods ablaze.0pts
Photo credits
- The River — Ebube Clara, CC BY-SA 4.0
