An old library copy of the optimists daughter

Laurel hand, long absence from the south, comes from Chicago to New Orleans, where her father dies after surgery. With Fay, the stupid new young wife of her father, Laurel returns to her former Mississippi home and stays a few days after the funeral for reunions with old friends. In a night alone in the house she grew up in, she confronts elements of a pass and come to a better understanding of it and of herself and her parents.