Welty, Eudora

This is a story of laurel McKelva hand, a young woman who has left the South and returns, years later, to New Orleans, where her father is dying. after his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back still farther, to the small Mississippi town where she grew up. Alone in the old house, laurel finally comes to an understanding of the past, herself and her parents.

A collection of stories that portrays the particular texture of Southern life.

A collection of essays in which twentieth-century American author Eudora Welty speaks about the craft of writing, discussing the writing of stories, the uses of place in the novel, the importance of words in the construction of fiction, and other topics.