" The title character of this novel is the child of seventy- one-year-old Judge McKelva who visits a New Orleans hospital complaining of vision troubles.
Its characters come "out of all times of trouble, past or future--the great, interrelated family of those who never know the meaning of what has happened to them." The title character of this novel is the child of seventy- one-year-old Judge McKelva who visits a New Orleans hospital complaining of vision troubles. The title character flies from Chicago to be by her father's side, and after he dies, she helps her father's wife, Fay, bury him in his hometown of Mount Salus, Mississippi. For ten points, name this novel whose title describes Laurel, a Pulitzer Prize winner by Eudora Welty.
Its characters come "out of all times of trouble, past or future--the great, interrelated family of those who never know the meaning of what has happened to them.
The Optimist’s Daughter