![]() Having left her husband after recognizing his faithlessness, she finds herself in Borg, a tiny, economically depressed “community built along a road.” Borg is almost Dickensian in its circumstances. In that book, and to a greater extent in this one, Britt-Marie’s compulsive fastidiousness is explained by her tragic past and history of being neglected and diminished by those around her. Readers will remember the titular Britt-Marie as the “nag-bag” from My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry. Like Backman’s debut, A Man Called Ove (2014), this latest novel features an older, very particular protagonist forced to navigate a challenging set of circumstances. ![]() ![]() The latest in a trio of thematically similar books by the bestselling Swedish author of My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry (2015), etc. ![]()
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