@cmdw2600 Thanks! I liked Remarkably Bright Creatures too! And I happen to have The Correspondent out from the library, though I haven’t read it yet.
I often find interesting older characters in books by Amy Tan, Lisa See, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Roger Rosenblatt. In the mystery genre, Agatha Christie, Louise Penny, Richard Osman, and Spencer Quinn’s Mrs. Plansky books. In poetry, Margaret Atwood’s Dearly (a book of poems).
Four others I especially liked were Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver; The History of Love by Nicole Krauss; Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather; and News of the World by Paulette Jiles. (I’m looking through my notebook of books I’ve read. I guess there are more than I thought!)