When asked by a clergyman why he never seeks pleasure in town on Sundays, a character in this novel thinks, “It is because a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he’s already got.” A character in this novel tells his foster mother that her husband is “at a dance” but “not dancing” after bludgeoning him with a chair. Another character in this novel kidnaps his own grandson, sends him to an orphanage, and then takes a job as a janitor at the orphanage to watch him. This novel opens from the perspective of a woman who walks from Alabama for four weeks to find the man who impregnated her, who now uses the alias Joe Brown. A character in this novel is castrated by Percy Grimm after murdering Joanna Burden. For 10 points, multiracial Joe Christmas is the protagonist of what William Faulkner novel? ■END■
ANSWER: Light in August
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