As I Lay Dying

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner.

The Bundren family travels across Mississippi to bury Addie, their wife and mother. William Faulkner turns the journey into an encounter with the different needs and understandings carried by members of the same family.

Read it for the difficulty of arriving at one account of a shared event. The novel asks how duty, grief and self-interest can occupy the same action.