Baltimore Through Different Eyes
Traveling south along the eastern edge of the United States from Connecticut, you’ll eventually get to Baltimore, Maryland, just below the Mason Dixon line that separated the North from the South.
I’ve only ever been to Baltimore through the eyes of Anne Tyler
Waters’s vision shows a grimy yet brightly colored caricature of his home town with images of depravity and f*dupness, honest in its way to Baltimore. Tyler, too, offers an honest vision of Baltimore, but hers is more literal with true to life characters and realistic descriptions of this old American city.
As different as their visions are, we can see an essence of Baltimore that ties it to the rest of the South, to people like William Faulkner