There is the book, which I'm currently reading. Suddenly (page 93) I realized she was portraying the vacuity of southern masculinity. The negative example, the anti-hero. What not to be. And yet you recognize it more than you would care to admit. He's also an atheist in the Bible Belt. He talks about having a church of the no Christ. Then he becomes Humbert Humbert. But then he has O'Connor's sexuality and wafts away, avoiding intimacy, pushes away the teen who tries to crawl into his bed. There's a kind of lack of intimacy in every character, nobody is really wanted or powerful in any real way. Haze is schizoid. Isolation. Wikipedia writes: "O'Connor states that the book is about freedom, free will, life and death, and the inevitability of belief. Themes of redemption, racism, sexism, and isolation also run through the novel." There is a movie . It's for a fee on Amazon Prime. The cool thing now is that when you search a movie, they will tell you...