The birth of this novel's protagonist is witnessed by Clarentine, the mother of her eventual husband, and door-to-door salesman Abram Skutari, better known as "The Old Jew."
The birth of this novel's protagonist is witnessed by Clarentine, the mother of her eventual husband, and door-to-door salesman Abram Skutari, better known as "The Old Jew." A trip to the Orkney Islands reveals that Magnus, the father of the protagonist's dead husband, is still alive at 115 years old in this novel, which includes a section in which the protagonist writes a gardening column under the name Mrs. Green Thumb. Its protagonist's first husband dies from drunkenly falling out of a window on their honeymoon in France and her second husband Barker was previously her adoptive father figure. This work traces the life of its protagonist from her birth in (*) Saskatchewan through her childhood in Indiana and her retirement and death in Florida. Because of its author's dual citizenship, it's the only book to win both a Pulitzer and the Governor General's Award in Canada. For 10 points, name this 1993 novel about the life of Daisy Goodwill Flett, whose existence is filled with lots of names and events relating to rocks, written by Carol Shields.
The birth of this novel's protagonist is witnessed by Clarentine, the mother of her eventual husband, and door-to-door salesman Abram Skutari, better known as "The Old Jew."
The Stone Diaries