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This is the story of Laurel McKelva Hand, a young woman who left her home in the South
a number of years ago, who now travels to New Orleans to take care of her dying father.
After his death, Laurel returns to the small Mississippi town where she was raised and,
while living in her old family home, comes to terms with her past and her relationship
with her family. Welty compassionately explores the bonds between parents and children,
and the complexities of love and grief in the partially autobiographical novel which won
the Pulitzer Prize.
--- Reviewed by Judith Handschuh
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