The best example in literary fiction of unexpected death fromt the child's point of view

As we near the conclusion of James Agee's novel A Death in the Family (1957) we come upon the painful chapters in which Mary must inform her two preschool-age children that their father has died in a car accident. These chapters comprise one of the finest examples of close narration: the narrative seemingly takes as long to unfold as the incidents it contains. Agee gives us in microscopic detail the way in which Mary explains death to the children - God wanted their father so he took him away - and the finality of death: We are going to see his body and then we will never see him again until we're in heaven. The older child, Rufus - the emotional center of the novel (and perhaps a version of the young Agee? - I don't know much about his life and background) - rebels against the information - why would God do that? - and his questions are truly unanswerable. We then follow the children through the morning of the funeral, as they are shunted aside, treated with almost sadistic cruelty by a visiting Catholic chaplain; Rufus picks on his sister and acts out - understandably, the kids are both completely confused and uncomfortable, witness to all this sorrow and their mother's near breakdown; in a climactic scene, Rufus goes outside to tell the group of older boys who have picked on him and teased him, that his father is dead. At first they're skeptical, but it turns out that one or more of the boys have heard about this death as their parents read of it in the morning paper (not really possible to get that much in print so quickly, but set that aside) and they confirm his account. Surprisingly, the boys don't tease Rufus, for once - though one or two of them report comments from home that suggest that the father had been drinking That's clearly something we readers have suspected, and Agee has a sly way of bringing that information to the fore, in the same way that there are intimations that the children may be of mixed race, though there's no narrative voice of authority to give us background or perspective - again, this is close narration, strictly limited to the characters' (esp the son's) POV, without an external narrative authority for verification and context. There's probably no better example in literary fiction of the unexpected death of a parent from the child'd point of view - w/ all of the attendant sorrow, confusion, anger, and strange nuances, such as the use of the father's death to gain stature and credence among other children.