[ SECRET POST #3542 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3542 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Most Comforting Fiction

[(Anonymous)]

When I feel down, I reread Shirley Jackson's "Louisa, Please Come Home," about a young woman who walks away from her life and relocates under a new identity. There's something that obscurely cheers me up about Louisa's long, gleeful description of hiding in plain sight and moving through a crowd where "nobody really saw me." And I've always liked her consoling phrase: Nothing is hard to do unless you get excited or upset about it.

Other favorites: Lucy Maud Montgomery's Jane of Lantern Hill and The Blue Castle. Both are about female characters with overbearing, intrusive or controlling parent-figures who basically dictate their children's identities. Both Jane and Valancy (from The Blue Castle) are awkward, timid and cowed--until they manage to get away and find autonomy and fulfillment for themselves. Also, in each case a house is involved--and I love a story about a house.