Hi,
My wife arrived 22 years ago to the US when she was 40. We arrived together with two kids and now we have been married for 40 years. The purpose of her arrival was to initiate and finish grad studies. She is a public school teacher and reading is a way for her to mentally and physically rest.
She loves to read in Spanish and English and she has loved both biographies of women and kind-of-reality based fiction written by women from a first or third person point of view.
And now she feels that she has run out of interesting books and finding one has been unsuccessful.
She has read most books of Isabel Allende, not the last ones because she noted a change that was not interesting for her anymore. The biography of Merkel was great; books about professional women, feminism from a critical and personal point of view have been devoured. She has enjoyed coherent and socially relevant romantic books. She dislikes self-help books.
Essays about sociological issues like living abroad accompanied with a sounded sociological framework have been good. Psychologically-centered books with not enough mention to context are clearly not her favorites.
Help will be greatly appreciated.
I thank you all in advance.
by oneoftheresurrected
5 Comments
The Argentine novelist and writer Luisa Valenzuela is a favorite of mine! _Hay que sonreír, Como en la guerra,_ and _Novela negra con argentinos_ are my favorites
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
First person fiction – my first thoughts are I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. Kaye Gibbons also has many books that could fit into this description like Charms for the Easy Life or Sights Unseen.
Books by Luis Alberto Urrea… Hummingbird’s Daughter is my favorite but they are all good. Also for lighter reads, books by Clare Pooley
I think I have a few suggestions for your wife. If she likes to read in Spanish, I recommend Nicaraguan author Gioconda Belli, she’s amazing. I especially recommend her books
– La mujer habitada
– El país de las mujeres
– El pergamino de la seducción
– El país bajo mi piel
In addition, I recommend Uruguayan author Carolina De Robertis; she writes in English. I recommend her books
– Perla
– Cantoras
– The Gods of Tango
– The Invisible Mountain
I also recommend “My Brilliant Friend” (series of four books) by Neapolitan author Elena Ferrante and “Shanghai Girls” by Lisa See.