This book deserves to be on the college book list. This book has many elements that make it belong on the list. The reading level is high enough and the elements of the book are a bit challenging when it comes to figuring out the relationships with people. Some of the references in the book are also hard to understand like, “And somewhat as in blind night, on a mild sea, a sailor may be made aware of an iceberg, fanged and mortal, bearing invisibly near, by the unwarned charm of its breath, nothingness now revealed itself: that permanent night upon which the stars in their expiring generations are less than the glinting of gnats, and nebulae, more trivial than winter breath; that darkness in which eternity lies bent and pale, a dead snake in a jar, and infinity is the sparkling of a wren blown out to sea; that inconceivable chasm of invulnerable silence in which cataclysms of galaxies rave mute as amber.” That quote is one that someone find to be pretty hard.
Works Cited
“A Death in the Family” James Agee
A Death In the Family By Bailey 