The Optimist's Daughter
Overview - What We're Reading Now
"A Pulitzer Prize winner, the author masterfully depicts the process we all live through - our childhood and then our view of our parent's as people, and how we cope with their choices and how it affect our lives. Read more...
"A Pulitzer Prize winner, the author masterfully depicts the process we all live through - our childhood and then our view of our parent's as people, and how we cope with their choices and how it affect our lives. Read more...
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Overview
What We're Reading Now
"A Pulitzer Prize winner, the author masterfully depicts the process we all live through - our childhood and then our view of our parent's as people, and how we cope with their choices and how it affect our lives. Funny, touching, and insightful."
Sarah McLaughlin - Books-A-Million, Downer's Grove, IL
A young woman who has left the South, returns to New Orleans several years later when her father is dying. After his death, she and her young stepmother go back to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Alone in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past and herself.
"A Pulitzer Prize winner, the author masterfully depicts the process we all live through - our childhood and then our view of our parent's as people, and how we cope with their choices and how it affect our lives. Funny, touching, and insightful."
Sarah McLaughlin - Books-A-Million, Downer's Grove, IL
A young woman who has left the South, returns to New Orleans several years later when her father is dying. After his death, she and her young stepmother go back to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Alone in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past and herself.
