As I Lay Dying

Excerpt

Written in stream-of-consciousness style with multiple narrators, the story follows a journey wherein the family of a dead woman try to transport her body to her birthplace in Mississippi in accordance with her wishes. When a ford across a river is flooded they are forced to take a roundabout route and it becomes a desperate race to complete their mission before the body begins to decompose.

Literary origin

Country whose literature this title belongs to, based on author tradition —not necessarily where the story is set.

• United States

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