Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty
	List Price:   $19.95 Unit Price:   $15.96 You Save:   $3.99 (20%) ISBN-10:   0808576860 ISBN-13:   9780808576860 Publisher:   Tandem Library Books Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   January 1990 Format:   Library Binding Grades:   7 to 12
Subjects
CHILDREN'S FICTION
Description/Notes
The story of a young woman who leaves the South and returns years later to find an understanding of the past, herself and her parents. 'The Optimist's Daughter' is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Alone in the old house, Laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past, herself, and her parents.