Eudora Welty - Optimist's Daughter

Pros: Welty wrote some of the finest literature, Southern or otherwise, ever to grace a page

Cons: Miss Welty has gone to that great Library in the Sky

The Bottom Line: If you've let those Eudora Welty books sit unread on your shelves, then there's no better time than now to take one down and discover what made her so great.

Review:
Until her death at 92 last month, Eudora Welty had been one of those writers I always told myself I’d “get around to one of these days.” Sadly, it took her death for me to declare, “Today is the day.”

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Pros: Welty, as usual, delivers quality Americana in a captivating if somewhat dark story.

Cons: Short story but requires patience and time to fully grasp and appreciate while you read.

The Bottom Line: High quality writing is rare in our modern age of blogging and online publishing. Revisit a classic from before the age of home computers.

Review: As I sit down to write this review, I admit I'm a little at a loss as to where to begin. This was a short novel, yet a complicated story! Eudora Welty, a proliferative writer from Jackson, Mississippi, won the Pulitzer in 1973 for this one, and I'm ...