Recommendations for my mom

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Hello folks. I am seeking recommendations for my 75-year-old mother in recent contemporary fiction. She enjoys books that are engaging, emotionally satisfying, and while not too fluffy, also not very dense or difficult to read. Some books I know she has enjoyed in recent years (because she recommended them to me) include A Man Called Ove, Frederick Backman; Snow Child, Eowyn Ivey; We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler; and All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, Bryn Greenwood.

Read anything like these that you would strongly recommend?
 

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The Rosie Project and Rosie Effect? Maybe a little fluffier than Ove but...

Does she read any non-fic? Wesley the Owl?
 

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Thanks folks. My mom is recovering from an illness with some cognitive effects which might limit what she can comfortably read (or listen to). So I’m going to pass along all the recommendations and hope that she’ll find some things among them that do the job.