num_pages: 269
description: From her calamitous 1905 birth in Manitoba to her journey with her father to Indiana, throughout her years as a wife, mother, and widow, Daisy Stone Goodwill struggles to understand her place in her own life. Now, in old age, Daisy attempts to tell her life story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography.
language: English
title: The Stone Diaries
titlecomplete: The Stone Diaries
genres: Canada, Historical Fiction, Canadian Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Womens, Literature, Classics, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 39550
places: Canada, Indiana
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
publisher: Penguin Essential Editions