Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons. I read it a long, long time ago but I remember it leaving me feeling very happy. It was about a mother and daughter. It might be young-adult-ish...maybe. But I'd take a stab at it. I don't know if you've ever read Their Eyes Were Watching God, but that's an incredible book too.
I just read Summer Lightning by P.G. Wodehouse--it's one of the Blandings series, which I much prefer to Jeeves and Wooster. It had me giggling aloud at my temp job last week. I also read West With the Night by Beryl Markham while temping. She was a female commercial pilot born and raised in Africa, and some of her descriptions of growing up in Africa and of flying are just astonishing.
Not necessarily feminist or SJ-aware, but both wonderful and not too heavy.
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...Also, what is SJ? I'd like to be aware! :)
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I've read Their Eyes Were Watching God. Wouldn't think of it as a light read, lots of very heavy stuff.
I'm thinking something like Skinny Dip by Carl Hiassen- something that leaves one with an optimistic feeling, joyful, laughter.
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Not necessarily feminist or SJ-aware, but both wonderful and not too heavy.
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