254 pages
English language
Published Nov. 20, 1930 by J. Cape, H. Smith.
As I lay dying
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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.
Subjects
- Parent and adult child -- Fiction
- Problem families -- Fiction
- Married women -- Fiction
- Death -- Fiction
- Mississippi -- Fiction