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Carol Shields

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The Stone Diaries is a 1993 award-winning novel by Carol Shields. It is the fictional autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett, a seemingly ordinary woman whose life is marked by death and loss from the beginning, when her mother dies during childbirth. Through marriage and motherhood, Daisy struggles to find …

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Portrays a happily married man's mid-life crisis, involving new evaluations of friends, family, career associates, and particularly himself, when his loving wife goes away for a short time