The Stone Diaries

This is the poignant story of Daisy Goodwill, twentieth-century pilgrim, from her calamitous birth in Canada to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Struggling to find her place in the world, she listens and observes, becoming a witness to her own life and death in this rich tale that reflects and illuminates our own unsettled era. ~from the back cover

Set in

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  Tyndall · Canada

  birth and origin town
  ★ primary
• Bloomington, Indiana · United States

  childhood and stonecutting years
• Ottawa, Ontario · Canada

  brief career and marriage