The Wild Palms by William Faulkner

This novel tells two unrelated stories in an interweaving pattern: the story of a young doctor's elopement with a married woman and the story of a convict's tribulations when the Mississippi River floods. Although neither of these stories are set in Yoknapatawpha, they are still very Faulknerian (his elevated diction and syntactically complex sentences remain), and they complement each other very well thematically. I was particularly interested in Faulkner's treatment of the pregnant women, of fate and resignation, and of responsibility.