As I Lay Dying (Vintage International)

If you want to read some Faulkner, start here. This is one of the easier books (ugh, don't touch The Sound and the Fury, as much as you like the title, until you are ready to deal with a headache). It's about a VERY dysfunctional family traveling to another county to bury the mother. By the end of the book, vulchers are following them because of the smell, the dad is already...more

If you want to read some Faulkner, start here. This is one of the easier books (ugh, don't touch The Sound and the Fury, as much as you like the title, until you are ready to deal with a headache). It's about a VERY dysfunctional family traveling to another county to bury the mother. By the end of the book, vulchers are following them because of the smell, the dad is already looking for a new wife, and the youngest son is convinced his mother is a fish. The daughter, by the way, is making attempts throughout the entire trip to get an abortion because she tricked into having sex. This book is so funny, but beware: there are 15 or so different narrators and there are going to be times that you wonder why someone or something is relevant. Well, guess what? They/it probably isn't. Faulkner doesn't fall into the trap of always having to make sense. He was probably drunk anyway.   hide