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The Stone Diaries

The Stone Diaries

Author(s): Carol Shields

Location(s): Indiana

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): 20th Century

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Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood and old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her own role, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her own story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography.

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