A review by aprestia310
The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty

4.0

I didn't really get this book at first and the beginning frustrated me so much that I had to put it down for a month and start again later. Laurel just seemed like a really dull main character, it wasn't until the very end when the point of that dullness really hit home. She's had such a difficult life, with all of her loved ones dying. This book is a bittersweet exploration of nostalgia with the final conclusion that the only value in things and places are people and memories.