Preferably not one that’s bleak then becomes uplifting later, but a fiction read that’s genuinely hopeful and optimistic and things work out. Drama and struggle are fine, but I’d like to read something where the depths of the struggle aren’t the main focus. Recently I’ve read Demon Copperhead, Lonesome Dove, Stoner, Flowers for Algernon, In the Distance, a few others that have great drama and are wonderfully written, etc, but I’m questioning my life choices, haha.
There’s got to be plenty of great literature that doesn’t make me hate the world first in order to learn to love some small part later.
I will say… I read Project Hail Mary and enjoyed it. I appreciated the “cooperation porn” aspect of it where people and governments came together on a grand epic scale like they never ever would in real life.
by HuckleberryDry2919