Trying to help a friend find a less direct way to try to get her mom hearing not right wing/conservative/'centrist' views. She wants to engage with her, but nonconfrontationally
This isn't my genre, so I am lost! Chick lit would have been easier 😂
by jesslynn1124
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Maybe the Inspector Gamache series by Louise Penny? First book is Still Life.
They take place in Canada and aren’t overtly political but later books in the series deal with topics like fentanyl, Native American “boarding schools,” sex trafficking, racism, nationalism, etc.
They aren’t explicitly “leftist” but I think something subtler might be good. The author is progressive.
Karin Slaughter is good on both of those counts. Get her into the Will Trent series or her standalone books are all good.
Stuart Turton’s books would be a place to start! Let me summarize them:
1. Evelyn Hardcastle: classic mansion whodunnit, but with a twist of Body Jumping Groundhog Day meets clue – would be good to sow identity not tied to gender, shows different viewpoints of the world based on social class, etc. this one is his debut novel and also his best. Would be the most familiar to a murder mystery lover.
2. Devil in the Dark water takes place on a 1600s East India trading ship – shows the corruption of wealth inequality, brutal labor conditions, an unlikely love story, and the power of letting women make decisions and be their own people.
3. The last murder at the end of the world tackles what it means to be human, has a queer love story, and a satisfying take on the interactions between science and life. Probably the most liberal of his works, but a satisfying sci-fi mystery for anyone who liked LOST in the 2000s.
VI Warshawski . Sara Paretsky