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[The Optimist's Daughter] (By: Eudora Welty) [published: August, 1990]

The Optimist's Daughter

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[The Optimist's Daughter] (By: Eudora Welty) [published: August, 1990]

The Optimist's Daughter

Penned By Eudora Welty
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This Pulitzer Prize–winning novel tells 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. Along in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past, herself, and her parents.

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