180 pages
English language
Published Nov. 7, 1990 by Vintage International.
The optimist's daughter
by Eudora Welty
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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.
Subjects
- Women -- Mississippi -- Fiction
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Fiction
- Fathers -- Death -- Fiction
- Reminiscing -- Fiction
- Reunions -- Fiction
- Mississippi -- Fiction