As I Lay Dying

As I Lay Dying, published in 1930, is a masterful Modernist novel by William Faulkner. It stands as a pivotal work of Southern Gothic literature and is frequently cited for its revolutionary narrative structure. The book is set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, and recounts the harrowing, multi-day journey of the impoverished Bundren family to transport the body of their deceased matriarch, Addie Bundren, for burial in her hometown of Jefferson