Brkic, CourtneyJohnson, Lindsey M.2013-09-102018-09-092013-09-10https://hdl.handle.net/1920/8440Set in rural North Carolina in the early nineties, the novel-in-stories, Bless Fine-Hearted Men, follows a family through the transformative years of their lives. Told from the point of view of Honey, the family’s daughter, we experience poverty, abuse, sex and death in the dilapidated South through the profound naïveté that only youth brings. Other characters provide insight, as well, in order to dissect the most ominous and mature minutiae of rural lifeenFine-heartedBlessSouthern literatureSouthThesis