The Paris Bookseller and Fried Green Tomatoes contain strong bonds between women who work together, live together, and even love together. In Remarkably Bright Creatures, the hero for me was the female protagonist, Tova, more so than the octopus, Marcellus, although I did enjoy seeing what he was up to. In her memoir, The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls works and works and works. She starts when she is three years old, cooking hot dogs, and never stops working, despite everything – literally everything – going wrong around her. All were incredible stories of perseverance, following dreams, and never giving up hope.
