As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

The Bundren family transports their matriarch Addie's coffin on a harrowing journey through Mississippi to honor her wish to be buried in Jefferson. Told through fifteen distinct first-person narrators, Faulkner's novel was challenged in Vernon-Verona-Sherrill School District in New York in 1980 for its "profanity and obscenity" and for what a parent called a "filthy book."