Last night I finished A Death in the Family wherein author James Agee’s prose perfectly describes what characters are thinking and saying – I just wish they’d had less to think and say. In Death someone well loved is lost (no duh, right?) and the realization of that loss is felt by everyone in the tight-knit circle of friends and family. Some are confused, others disappointed, and still more feel the only way they can go on is through relentless prayer.
And when I say relentless, I mean it. The prayers go on and on for what felt like, and could’ve been, pages. Read the rest of this entry »
