The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty Description:  Laurel Hand, who has lived in Chicago for many years, returns to her Mississippi home for her father's funeral and stays on a few days with Fay, her selfish and stupid young stepmother, another of Miss Welty's outsiders. During a night alone in the house she grew up in, Laurel confronts memories of the past that lead her to new insights into the relationship between love, death, memory and truth and learns to better understand herself and her loving parents. Suggested by Alon (May 2009) Meeting: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at Greg's home      past      present      future      photos