{"_id":"67b97b24db3e9c4947f7b0bd","title":"A Death in the Country","author":"Stephen Vincent Benét","code":"a-death-in-the-country","publish_year":1937,"publish_source":"Thirteen o’clock, Stories of Several Worlds","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/thirteenoclock0000unse_r5h1/page/22/mode/2up","words":8181,"image":"coffin.jpg","image_alt":"A wooden coffin with a cross. Graphite filter","genres":["literary"],"description":"Tom Carroll returns to the country for an aunt’s funeral, knowing that the enormous family of his childhood has become small and estranged.","blurb":"“There were shrunken old people, timorous and pettish, and a small, heart-stifling town. These and the grown-up children, more strange than strangers. But Hessian Street was over—the great tree was down.”","content_warning":["Use of Slurs"],"rating":4,"has_review":false,"has_collections":false}