A Good Man was something I picked up thinking it was going to be a love story, quickly figured out it was a collection of short stories that have very little to do with love, and only continued reading because it was on a list of books every girl should read in her twenties. I thought that given the style and the review it would end up being something akin to Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. It is not.
The stories are full of emotion without much energy. The characters all feel things, but not enough to do much about their predicament. There is a total lack of positive, creative, or advancing energy in every story. While the apathy of miserable characters was a total downer, it also struck true to the era and setting of the book (post WWII south).
I don't consider this book at all necessary for anyone not in a literature course studying female short story form in the early Cold War south, it also doesn't make the text poorly written or not worth while. It's just a little too miserable for dank winter days.
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