# The Optimist’s Daughter

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- Authors: [Eudora Welty](https://www.bookquiver.com/eudora-welty)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2004-02-09
- Genres: Fiction: literary and general non-genre, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Classic fiction: literary and general, Fiction in translation

## Description

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.

## Editions

### The Optimist’s Daughter

- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-08-6068-375-9
- Published: 2004-02-09
- Language: en_GB

### The Optimist's Daughter

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7972-883-2
- Pages: 192
- Published: 1990-08-11
- Language: en_US

## This book in other languages

- [Донька оптиміста](https://www.bookquiver.com/yudora-velti/uk/donka-optymista) (uk_UA)