As I Lay Dying

1 About this book

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.

• Domestic fiction
• Family life
• American Manuscripts
• Death
• Stream of consciousness
• Problem families
• Married women
• Parent and adult child