Hello,
I have an idea of buying my family members (mother, father, and brother) books that might be intriguing an d interesting for them. I will describe below my analysis of them with hopefully decent indicators that might help you people suggest some titles.
Father – grew up in communist Romania with an abusive alcoholic father, the youngest of the family, had to endure a lot of hardships since his teen years (working to sustain himself, abandonment by family members), no education due to family situation so had to resort to manual labour (so like 8 classes, became a construction worker, now a trucker), spends a lot of alone time due to his current job (trucker), very disconnected from us whenever he is around us, always pondering on who knows what, probably his mind is just full of thoughts due to the solitude he has and had to endure, he himself was abusive towards our mother – general world view is thus generated by his life, he sees the world as very corrupt and unforgiving, where your value to the world is strictly material, thus he doesnt value any rules/society at all, emotions arent a strong point of his, neither his relationship with his family is good nor does he have any real friends.
Mother – grew up in an orphanage, abandoned by family, dominated by feelings of worthlessness and servitude, lived her marriage in constant fear due to a lack of any espace doors, still sacrificed herself to grow her children and earlier for her sister while in the orphanage, doesnt have any solid education, struggles with her role in the family and affection inside of it and in the outside world.
Brother – young teen, first year of high school, a childhood consisting of video games and me mostly, due to my mothers behaviour towards him because of school has very very low self esteem, is afraid to be creative and original, very shy, and keeps himself to video games and his phone, he doesnt do anything other than that, nor does he enjoy school too much.
Based on these descriptions to the best of my ability, please recommend titles that might be suited to them, dont forget their level of education – I dont think too complex books that require further digging after reading them to grasp them would benefit them.
Thanks.
by andi2k17