Finding Flannery

A Travel Memoir Exploring the Mystique of Flannery O’Connor and the Legacy She Has Left Us All

De: Christina Brajkovich, Karen Anne Mahoney, Roxane Salonen

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Winner of a 2026 Catholic Media Award for Memoir

Follow the journey of three generations of women from the North on a road trip to Milledgeville, Georgia, and be transported into a literary pilgrimage to the Deep South—to the land of peaches and magnolias, where one of America’s most celebrated fiction writers, Flannery O’Connor, lived and wrote. Here, where the world is best taken in from a front porch rocking chair, meet the woman of Andalusia, whose stories of grace, sin and redemption–with their grotesque violence, misfit characters and spiritual epiphanies–have left as many readers shocked as in stitches. Uncover the mystique of Flannery within this vivid travelogue detailing a trip taken during the 50th year after her death from lupus, and peer into the culture, landscape and places that educated and shaped Flannery’s imagination and fed her soul.

Author Bios:

Christina Brajkovich is a Wisconsin-born writer and a graduate of Franciscan University of Steubenville, with articles published in faith and community-driven publications around the country. After visiting the South, she transplanted to the Pacific Northwest to pursue her dreams, eventually making a pivotal return to the Midwest. Hers is a coming-of-age story, emboldened by Flannery’s influence. She lives in southwest Wisconsin with her husband and four children.

Karen Anne Mahoney, mother of five and grandmother to 15, has contributed as an award-winning journalist to Catholic and secular publications in her home state of Wisconsin and beyond for more than 30 years. Like Flannery, Karen suffers from autoimmune diseases, and in this journey, she finds renewed inspiration in the grace with which our heroine bore her crosses.

Roxane B. Salonen has been crafting stories as a journalist and author based in Fargo, North Dakota, for decades, including through co-authoring the award-winning What Would Monica Do? Whether through podcast interviews or newspaper articles, Roxane finds Flannery’s love for the truth and Catholic convictions fortifying as she seeks to report on the truth today.