The Stone Diaries
Author: Carol Shields
This is the story of Daisy Goodwill, from her birth in a kitchen in Manitoba, Canada, to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Through Daisy’s life, Shields reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of the twentieth century in this rich and poignant novel…..Read More
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