Country Chick Lit?

Question

Are there any chick lit books about women who live in small towns or are "country" girls? Or if anyone knows any authors who write this type of chick lit. I don't like romance novels, but I LOVE chick lit but would love to read some that I can relate to a little more.

Answer 1

There are very few and I'm a big fan of small-town stories AND chick lit (or women's fiction.)

In fact, there simply aren't enough so I'm writing my own. (I'm a novelist.)

In the meantime, here are some favorites which either take place in small towns or have a rural feel:

Gods in Alabama by Joshilyn Jackson
Between, George by Joshilyn Jackson
The Dearly Departed by Elinor Lipman
Charms for the Easy Life by Kaye Gibbons
A Complicated Kindess by Miriam Toews
Shout Down the Moon by Lisa Tucker
The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
The Center of Winter by Marya Hornbacher
The Girl She Left Behind by Karen Brichoux
My Only Story by Monica Wood
Mean Season by Heather Cochran
Cranberry Queen by Kathleen DeMarco
The Center of Everything by Laura Moriarty
The Girlfriend Curse by Valerie Frankel
The Quality of Life Report by Meghan Daum


That should get you started.
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Answer 2

Here are a couple I think you would LOOOOOOVE!!

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg (actually, anything by Fannie Flagg)
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts
Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground (can't remember author)

They are not really "chick lit" in the strictest sense of the genre- like when you say "chick lit" I assume you mean books like the Shopaholic books or the Bridget Jones books. The first two I mentioned are actually much more critically-acclaimed than usual chick lit books, but I still think you'd enjoy them. Happy reading!!

Answer 3

I don't know exactly what you mean by chick lit. I'll assume it's literature by and about women, especially young women. So, how about some of the works of Willa Cather. My Antonia and O Pioneers both deal with young women who live in the country (Nebraska). They are wonderful novels. I think I prefer My Antonia by a narrow margin.
If you want to go back a ways, how about Louisa May Alcott and Little Women, Laura Ingalls Wilder and The Little House series, Jane Austen and all six of her novels, George Eliot and her comparatively difficult novels. Most of the above are either literary masterpieces or close to it. I hope you enjoy them.
And yes, all of these writers wrote about young women who lived in small towns or in the country. Some of them also wrote about cities.
In another sense, maybe the ultimate in country chick lit would be Loretta Lynn's autobiography "Coal Miner's Daughter."

Answer 4

truly no longer. i imagine in case you probably did somewhat of diagnosis about the time even as Austen replaced into writing, then each and each of the topics she brings up in her novels are very correct, to that era and as we talk. women human beings in that society did no longer have an major position. They were used as tokens between households, and *it truly is* why it replaced into so major that they married nicely---it wasn't about being rich to be rich; it replaced into about securing your family contributors so that you need to guard them. women human beings did not paintings and they did not bypass to college like men did. They weren't even allowed to bypass to universities till the nineteenth century. So what else were they meant to do? They were taught generic expertise via a governess and made to have particular skills (like song playing or drawing) so as that they could be extra rounded. because they did no longer have a similar position in society as men did, it truly is what they were left to doing. yet do no longer mistake domesticity for stupidity---some women human beings were highly intelligent, yet they weren't in any respect allowed the probability to reveal it by constraints and responsibilities positioned upon them by way of their sexist society. And for that matter, Austen grants some very, very stupid,boring and stupid men in her novels (take Mr. Rushworth in Mansfield Park, as an celebration). All of Austen's endings are culminations of what her characters deserve. The "undesirable" characters get their punishments, no matter if that's in poverty or a nasty marriage; the "sturdy" characters get their rewards in sturdy marriages and luckily ever afters. do no longer evaluate those stupid bodice-rippers with the likes of Jane Austen, because her works are extra in-intensity and witty than any Harlequin Romance, or maximum modern works, for that matter, ought to ever desire to be.