I sobbed through this entire novel. Something about Ove just hit a nerve in me, and his basically every action made my heart swell.

Backman's novel is a testament to the craft of writing. He took a fascinating, deceptively complex character and placed him into an everyday plot about residential policy, of all things, and somehow created something absolutely beautiful.

Ove is a curmudgeon, but it's hard not to love him. After all, every grumpy old man has lived a long life before becoming grumpy. Ove's life, revealed in bits and pieces, is, like most everyone else's, a series of relationships--with his father, with his boss, with his wife, with his friends. I loved every new piece of the story, and I am grateful to have gotten to know Ove through the pages.