Looking for a fiction book with positive undertones. Something with quirky characters and maybe mental health aspects. Basically I’m looking for uplifting fiction books – but I’m kind of tired of the style of the books like A Man Called Ove, The House in the Cerulean Sea, etc. They’re a little too “Disney” for me and I’m looking for something more real and relatable if that makes sense? Looking for something unique that grabs my attention. I’ve looked through other posts but haven’t been able to find anything I’m interested in. Help!
by Vegan_qtpie
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The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy! It’s short, funny and if you like it there are a few follow ups to it.
I really like Wallace Stegner. “Angle of Repose” won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972. He writes about the lives of pioneers on the frontiers in the late 1800’s in the U.S. and Canada. He grew up in a remote town in Saskatchewan. I’m reading “The Big Rock Candy Mountain” now. Stegner writes about strong women raising a family without much support from their husbands.
Perhaps Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny might fit the bill? It has a wonderful comic energy and engaging characters, while dealing with some serious issues including raising a child on the autistic spectrum.
The Spellman Files
Guncle
Nothing to See Here
Apathy and Other Small Victories by Paul Neilan is fucking hilarious. I couldn’t put it down once I picked it up.
Short novella – “love and saffron” by fay Kim
Two women in the 60’s writing each other letters about cooking and friendship and life
One is kind of a mentor to the other
Really warm book and some funny bits in it – also some serious bits
Girl Interrupted. It’s a narrativized memoir of a young woman’s time in an asylum in the 60s. I could not put it down, a quick and compelling read with excellent characters and a great discussion of mental health and women’s treatment in the mid 20th century.
Remarkable Bright Creatures 0 by Shelby Van Pelt seems t fit your criterua quit well
Anxious People by Frederik Backmann (of Man called Ove) might also be good fit, is a bit different in style, setting to Ove