My life is incredibly stressful and I feel like I am letting everyone down. Sometimes I feel like everyone would thrive without me and I find myself daydreaming about running away and starting a new life so the people I left behind can flourish. But instead of doing that, I’ll live vicariously through a character.
So suggest me a book where someone runs away and starts over with a new life. Fiction preferred. Doesn’t have to have a happy ending. I don’t have a particular genre preference.
by batmanpjpants
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Giovanni’s Room by Baldwin
The Vanishing Half by Bennett
A Town Called Solace by Lawson
The Elements by Boyne
Ladder of Years by Anne Tyler.
If you don’t mind YA, I quite enjoyed Fly by Night by Frances Hardinge – 12 year old orphan Mosca Mye runs away from her cruel uncle, accompanied by a conman and her violent pet goose, in a world still reeling from recent religious and civil revolution.
Britt Marie Was Here by Frederick Backman
You might like the story Wakefield by Nathaniel Hawthorne. A guy runs away but secretly only goes to the next block, and observes his family living without him.
Les Miserables
The Other Side of Now by Paige Harbison