The Optimist's Daughter

The people of Mount Salus Mississippi always felt good about Judge McKelva. He was a quiet solid reassuring figure just as a judge should be. Then ten years after his first wife''s death he marries the frivolous young Wanda Fay. No-one can understand his action not least his beloved daughter Laurel who finds it hard to accept the new bride. It is only some years later when circumstance brings her back to her childhood home that Laurel stirs old memories and comes to understand the peculiarities of her upbringing and the true relationship between her parents and herself. The Optimist''s Daughter is a reflective poignant novel of independence and love for which Eudora Welty one of America''s gretest contemporary Southern writers was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. . Language: English