The Optimist's Daughter Travelogue to a postapocalyptic Iron Age

to a postapocalyptic Iron Age Hawaii in the last days of history

It was only a matter of time before things got serious

It happened to Neale Donald Walsch

Old family wounds open as the Salters fight to stop the development of their beloved river

From this starting point

The Optimist's Daughter Travelogue to a postapocalyptic Iron AgeThe people of Mount Salus, Mississippi always felt good about Judge McKelva. He was a quiet, solid reassuring figure, just as a judge should be. Then, ten years after his first wife's death, he marries the frivolous young Wanda Fay. No one can understand his action, not least his beloved daughter, Laurel, who finds it hard to accept the new bride. It is only some years later, when circumstance brings her back to her childhood home, that Laurel stirs