# The Optimist's Daughter

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- Book: [The Optimist’s Daughter](https://www.bookquiver.com/eudora-welty/the-optimists-daughter) ([The Optimist’s Daughter.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/eudora-welty/the-optimists-daughter.md))
- Authors: [Eudora Welty](https://www.bookquiver.com/eudora-welty)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7972-883-2
- Pages: 192
- Published: 1990-08-11
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This Pulitzer Prize–winning novel tells 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,...