Other 20th century novels that are set in fictional towns that are closely related to the authors’ hometowns include The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner and One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
For those interested in the idea of memory in fiction, see Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (1913), famous for its exploration of “involuntary memory”.
For another, wildly different bestselling Canadian novel, see Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, now a major television series.
Other novels that address aging or that have middle-aged or elderly protagonists include Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg, Portrait of an Artist, as an...
