The optimist's daughter.
by Eudora Welty
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This story of a young woman's confrontation with death and her past is a poetic study of human relations. "The Optimist's Daughter" is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Alone in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past, herself, and her parents.
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Fiction, Mississippi in fiction, Funeral rites and ceremonies in fiction, Death, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Fathers, Women in fiction, Women, Reunions in fiction, Reunions, Fathers in fiction, Reminiscing in fiction, Reminiscing, Young women, Family, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, general, Large type books, Mississippi, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Women, fiction, Children's fiction, American fictionPlaces
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The optimist's daughter
1978, Vintage Books
in English
- 1st Vintage Books ed.
0394726677 9780394726670
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The Optimist's Daughter is the story of Laurel, a widow who returns to Mississippi when her father is ill and witnesses his death and funeral. From there, she embarks on a deeply personal journey to explore her past and her family in order to make sense of her future.
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