As I Lay Dying

When Addie Bundren dies, she leaves her family one last order: bury me in Jefferson, forty miles away, not here. What should be a simple errand turns into a grueling, increasingly disastrous journey — flooded rivers, a broken leg set in cement, a barn fire — while each family member narrates their own private version of grief, guilt, and self-interest.Faulkner tells the whole story through fifteen shifting first-person voices, none of them fully reliable, building one of modernism's most daring structural experiments into something that's also, underneath the technique, a brutally honest portrait of a family that never really knew how to love each other.