Abstract:Flannery O'Connor struggled with a debilitating case of systemic lupus erythmatosus for much of her adult life. In "'Blood
Don't Lie': The Diseased Family in Flannery O'Connor's Everything That Rises Must Converge," Susanna Gilbert
argues that this struggle makes its way into her fiction not only literally--through images of blood, disease, death, and
twisted parent-child relationships--but figuratively, as well, as many of the stories in her final collection replicate the very
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