November Books 22) As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner

[nwhyte]

Continuing my occasional dips into classic literature with this intense stream-of-consciousness tale of a poor Mississippi family, fulfilling their wife and mother's dying wish to be buried in her inconveniently distant home town. The family dynamics are weird and understated, and the time sequencing is occasionally jarring between the dozen or so

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[zdover]

I was profoundly affected when I read this in high school. I couldn't get it out of my head that Cash had made the coffin under Addie May's window while she was dying, so that she would hear the sound of the saw and know that he was making her coffin and that he loved her.

[drasecretcampus]

Have you read Graham Swift's Last Orders? Now would be a good time to do so if not. Although personally I never thought they were that close.