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“If you like reading about families in the South, you will enjoy Eudora Welty's The Optimist's Daughter. The story takes place in Mississippi. For me the book is an inside look at the grieving process. It's about how families and friends respond to a death. Eudora Welty gives a wonderful view of the importance of memory and the past. After reading the book, I tend to think memory is one of the useful ways to transcend the pain of loved ones who have died before us. The book is also about how...”
“The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty published in 1969 won a Welty’s Pulitzer Prize. is a story of a southern girl Laurel who goes back to her home in New Orleans due to the death of her father Judge McKelva and finds it hard to get over it. Forced living with Fay (Judge McKelva’s second wife who is younger than Laurel), Laurel concentrates in making good neighborliness of the friends and family she knew before marrying and moving away to Chicago. I didn’t like this book. I found it...”
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