Hello, I would greatly appreciate any help finding a gift for my mother. Here is some info about her and her likes:
- She's in her mid-70s, is a wife, mother, and grandmother
- She lives in the PNW
- She enjoys hiking, gardening, cooking, and her grandchildren
- She tends to like upbeat, positive, uplifting stories but nothing that borders on cheesy
- Can be fiction or non-fiction
Thank you!
by ramblington
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Still Life by Sarah Winman is my go-to rec for something with (sort of) mass appeal that is deeply poignant and beautiful without being cheesy
Ross Gay’s Book of Delights is a book of essays. I consider it a literary chicken soup for the soul. Beautiful, soulful, not cheesy.
Claire Keegan’s Foster, Small Things Like These, and So Late in the Day are gorgeous gifts. I think she’d truly love the stories but the books themselves look so pretty on a shelf or side table.
[In Every Life](https://booksofwonder.com/products/9781665912488) is technically a children’s book but holy moly, it’s a beautiful message with illustrations to match.
Last, [The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy,_the_Mole,_the_Fox_and_the_Horse)
will crack her heart wide open.
Mrs. Quinn’s Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
My Family and Other Animals – just so good.
Remarkably Bright Creatures
All Creatures Great and Small
YA, The Secret Garden
Remains of the Day
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The Correspondent
Braiding Sweetgrass
Guncle
Remarkably Bright Creatures for sure
Finding the Mother Tree
All Creatures Great and Small for something extremely cozy
Wild by Cheryl Strayed for something a bit more edgy (some mention of drugs, family trauma, etc, but overall very uplifting and inspirational)