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The Optimist's Daughter
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This was a lovely little novel about family ( old and new) from the viewpoint of an only child as an adult coping with the death of her father, and dealing with his despised second wife. The depiction of a southern funeral alone is fodder for sociologists of the future. In the end, Laurel learns to let go of the past. "She wept for what happened to life." It won a Pulitzer for Welty, deservedly so. A beautifully written depiction of a small southern town and it's people.
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July 4, 2012
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July 6, 2012
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Jul 05, 2012 04:47AM
This is a beautiful book, Diane. It will be nice to discuss it with you after you've read it.
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I have to decided to devote the entire month of July to reading Welty and Faulkner. I don't know if I can do it timewise, but my plan is for this book and some of her short stories, and Faulkner's Snopes trilogy. But first I have to finish Catch-22, which is slow going.
