A Death in the Family
James Agee • 1957
Devastation Rating
death grief family literary fiction
Our Take
Agee died before finishing this novel about a father killed in a car accident, and the incompleteness is part of the devastation. The family left behind moves through the days after death with such ordinary bewilderment that grief becomes a physical texture — felt in every room, every meal, every silence.
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