/lit/ - Literature

Joy Williams' The Quick and the Dead. Much to do with the alienation/denaturalization of death today. Nursing home inmates who dream to be driven "into the desert, into the sun-steeped scene of a bigger, darker world." Children sabotaging taxidermy museums in order to "[distinguish] between life and death... which is more than anyone else in this place does", etc etc. The Changeling is a good one too, not so directly relevant, but good reading if you wish to be transformed by the living world in some way.