Thursday Text: A Death in the Family

I just finished reading a book called A Death in the Family by James Agee. (I posted about his poetry previously.) I wasn't sure what I would think of the book, but I ended up liking it. Some of the parallels to my life story were astonishing, but I enjoyed it nonetheless.

The moistures of May drowned all save the most ardent of stars, and gave back to the earth the sublimated light of the prostrate city. Deep in the end of the back yard, the blossoming peach tree shone like a celestial sentinel. The fecund air lavished upon their faces the tenderness of lovers' adoring hands, the dissolving fragrance of the opened world, which slept against the sky.