5 Depressing Pieces of Literature About Dysfunctional Families to Get You Through the Holidays
As I Lay Dying William Faulkner
Sure, the Bundren family is pretty dysfunctional, and I can pretty much guarantee that reading Faulkner’s slim, modernist masterpiece will make you realize that as screwed up as your family is, at least you’d be able to get it together enough to bury your dead mother. No matter, though, because the Bundren family isn’t really the most depressing thing about As I Lay Dying. No, the most depressing thing about this book is that Faulkner wrote it in only six weeks. And what have you ever accomplished in six weeks? I thought so. Ugh. Depressing!