“A Man Called Ove” by Fredrik Backman

Ove is, for lack of a better word, a grump. Even though in the book he has aged fifty-nine years, I pictured him to look more like the little old man from the movie UP. Ove hates everything and everyone and doesn’t understand why people just can’t figure things out for themselves these days. He is busybody, a rule follower and likes things done a certain way. It isn’t Ove’s recent widower status that makes him this way, he has always been like this. Except for when he was with her. She was all the colors. Now Ove is left to figure out his way without her, something he isn’t sure he wants to do. Many times Ove’s antics made me smile and the last chapter had me in crying buckets. You will definitely fall in love with Ove…and Ove would have hated that. This is a must read.

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