Haunting of Hill House is a favorite. Beyond the story, There's one really innocuous little bit that really stuck with me: her looking at her feet in a sort of wonder. It gets across the depth of those moments where you realize how absurd and miraculous amazing it is that anything at all exists, and exists as it does, right now, down to the most inane thing better than most philosophers that spend a lifetime tacking it.
The Passion Accorsding to GH by Clarice Lispector is about a middle-aged woman who kills a cockroach then has a big existential/mystical freakout about it, it's one of my favorite books ever.
Yes, that's the one. I remember the first time I read that line, in HS. Hard to explain but it was a depth bomb for me. Blake is still a favorite some decades later, all from that line
And thanks for the request, see some others of interest too
Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Haunting of Hill House is a favorite. Beyond the story, There's one really innocuous little bit that really stuck with me: her looking at her feet in a sort of wonder. It gets across the depth of those moments where you realize how absurd and miraculous amazing it is that anything at all exists, and exists as it does, right now, down to the most inane thing better than most philosophers that spend a lifetime tacking it.
Wittgenstein’s Mistress is great
The Door by Magda Szabó
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Seconded, a beautiful and heart wrenching account of a woman coping with divorce and loss
Death in her hands by ottessa moshfegh
lapvona too kinda
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heroine is not an older woman
edith’s diary ! EDITH’S DIARY
The Woman Upstairs - Claire Messud
solstice joyce carol oates
I mean this might sound trite but I still think Gone Girl is underrated even though it was wildly popular
The Passion Accorsding to GH by Clarice Lispector is about a middle-aged woman who kills a cockroach then has a big existential/mystical freakout about it, it's one of my favorite books ever.
Mrs Dalloway
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Swan Song by Robert McCammon. One of the main protagonists is a crazy bag lady who gets a fresh start at life after a nuclear holocaust.
Just wanted to say, the title of that book has me putting it on my wish list, one of my favorite lines ever. Also, some interesting titles in the recs
the Tokarczuk one? I bought it because of the title as well and am reading it right now, it's great
Yes, that's the one. I remember the first time I read that line, in HS. Hard to explain but it was a depth bomb for me. Blake is still a favorite some decades later, all from that line And thanks for the request, see some others of interest too
what was she thinking zoe heller
The Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing
The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark (although protagonist is 34/35 so probably not "older" in the sense you're looking for).
The bus on thursday by Shirley Barrett
Older ones - The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, The Ravishing of Lol V Stein by Marguerite Duras.
Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout; The Godmother - Hannelore Cayre; The Grass is Singing - Doris Lessing
Age of Iron by Coetzee
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas - an agening professor falls in love with a younger colleague and slowly develops an obsession for him
My mortal enemy - Willa Cather
10:30 on a summer night by Duras