Carol Shields — The Stone Diaries
Fourth Estate 1994 Paperback, 384pp. From her calamitous 1905 birth on a kitchen floor in Manitoba, Canada, to her journey with her father to Indiana, throughout her years as a wife, mother, and widow, Daisy Stone Goodwill struggles to understand her place in her own life. Now, nearly 90 years later, Daisy attempts to tell her life story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography. Owner's Name inside. Cover creased. (ISBN: 9781857022254). Good.