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The Stone Diaries

Carol Shields

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The Stone Diaries is the fictional autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett, tracing her life from her birth in 1905 in Manitoba, Canada, to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. The novel is a subtle and affecting portrait of an everywoman as she drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood, and old age. Daisy, often bewildered by her inability to understand her own role in life, attempts to construct her own story, which reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of the 20th century while exploring the limitations of autobiography itself.