As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

"Addie Bundren is dead. Her family—a fractured Mississippi clan—embarks on a grueling journey to bury her in Jefferson, as promised. But as floods, fire, and madness descend upon them, each Bundren reveals their own twisted motives: Anse craves new teeth, Dewey Dell a secret abortion, and young Vardaman insists his mother is ‘a fish.’ Told through the shifting voices of fifteen characters—including Addie herself from beyond the grave—Faulkner’s masterpiece exposes the grotesque poetry of human selfishness. Will their odyssey honor Addie... or devour what’s left of her family?"