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The Optimist's Daughter

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The Optimist's Daughter

Written by: Eudora Welty
Narrated 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. Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction World Literature
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There are many sentences that I would have enjoyed re-reading. Welty has a monotone voice.

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