the last book I ever read (Anne Enright's The Gathering, excerpt six)

from Anne Enright's The Gathering, winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize:

I am saying that, the year you sent us away, your dead son was interfered with, when you were not there to comfort or protect him, and that interference was enough to send him on a path that ends in the box downstairs. That is what I am saying, if you want to know.