I am a year postpartum. I had a bad hospital experience that led me to severe health anxiety/ptsd and major PPD. I’ve been working my ass off, crawling out of that hole and i’m doing a lot better. I’m starting to read again. I’m looking for fiction that will make me think deeply but also bring me joy and hope. It doesn’t have to be about motherhood but that is a plus. Or about children/raising kids. I still can’t handle a lot of medical stuff so ideally nothing too gruesome on that regard.
I know this is a bit open ended. I just need a way to exercise my brain and my emotions again now that I’m feeling more myself!
by DaikonLow971
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Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg – sweet quirky small town, funny and heartwarming, one character has the worst luck on earth and her misadventures will cheer you up.
All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriott – absolutely hilarious memoir of a bumbling rural vet. You will laugh until you pee. I always read this when I’m in hospital and it was great when my kid was born because being shat upon by one small child pales before the things those cows do to poor Jim
The Summer of My Amazing Luck by Miriam Toewes – a young mom coping with grief moves into subsidized housing and learns to parent surrounded by quirky and heartwarming single moms (it’s sweet and funny and the phrase “I wanted my mom, then realized, oh my god, I’m *his* mom” will resonate with me forever)