For ten points, name this novel set in New Orleans and New Salus, Mississippi about Judge McKelva and her daughter Laura written by Eudora Welty.
The story of a crooked piece of stitching is used to illustrate the fear that haunts Verna Longmeier in this novel which asserts that surviving is the strangest fantasy of all. One character in this novel dreams about riding with her dead husband to Cairo, Illinois and [?] releases a bird stuck in her chimney. The protagonist overhears a conversation between Tennyson and Mrs. Pease, and Tom Farris has blindness in this work. One character nearly strikes a woman with a breadboard, while Rupert Bollock organizes a funeral one of the title figures, who listens to Charles Dickens being read after having detached retina surgery. For ten points, name this novel set in New Orleans and New Salus, Mississippi about Judge McKelva and her daughter Laura written by Eudora Welty.
The story of a crooked piece of stitching is used to illustrate the fear that haunts Verna Longmeier in this novel which asserts that surviving is the strangest fantasy of all.
The {Optimist's} Daughter