As I Lay Dying

As I Lay Dying

1930 • 231 pages

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“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.”

The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her last wishes as the intense desires, fears and rivalries of the family are revealed in the vernacular of the Deep South.

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This was the worst book I have ever read.

March 4, 2010

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April 2, 2022

Beholden to none
going home for the last time
buzzards in her wake.

January 20, 2019

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