The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields · 1993
Literary Fiction · ranked #154 in category
Daisy Goodwill Flett narrates her own life — from birth in Manitoba in 1905 through to old age — in a biography that uses documents, letters, photographs and others' perspectives alongside Daisy's own unreliable account. Shields's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel asks what a woman's life looks like when she tries to see it clearly.
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