Super Short Summary

Margaret Laurence’s 1964 novel The Stone Angel follows Hagar Currie Shipley, a nonagenarian reflecting on her life, oscillating between her struggles in the early 1960s and her past experiences. Hagar resists being placed in a nursing home, reminisces about her life as a headstrong daughter, her unhappy marriage to Bram Shipley, and her complex relationships with her children, ultimately seeking peace and reconciliation in her final days. The book includes references to death, familial estrangement, and class disparity.