Six top books featuring absent parents

Jesmyn Ward's new novel is Sing, Unburied, Sing. One of her six favorite books featuring absent parents, as shared at The Week magazine:As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Addie, the Bundren matriarch, dies at the beginning of the novel, and the rest revolves around her absence. Her ghost drives the Bundrens unrelentingly onward, making her husband's failings even more tragic.Read about the other