Light In August
main characters
Lena Grove, Byron Bunch, Lucas Burch/Joe Brown, Joe Christmas
Rip's impressions
A long Faulkner novel that one will either love or hate; he explores mixed race relations.
first line
Sitting beside the road, watching the wagon mount the hill toward her, Lena thinks, "I have come from Alabama a-walking. A fur piece."
last lines
(spoiler alert)
‘My, my. A body does get around. Here we aint been coming from Alabama but two months, and now it’s already Tennessee.’
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