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Delightful and different. Ove is a loner curmudgeon, determined to do away with himself after his wife dies. But he keeps getting thwarted by the neighbors, who arrive at inopportune times, backing over his mailbox when the sign clearly says no driving by the houses, falling off the borrowed ladder, and then leaving Ove to drive the preganant wife and kids to the hospital, and leaving him in charge of the stray, abandoned cat. Lovely how the neighbors got under his skin, without him really even knowing it, just like his late wife did.

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A very sweet book about a man of principle who comes across as an inflexible old curmudgeon. His beloved wife has passed away and his loneliness is terrible. He plans suicide and acts to carry it out but every time he is interrupted, often by his new neighbor. In a ballet of delightful circumstance the neighbors save Ove and Ove saves his neighbors. A fairy tale, an "I wish it was really this way" sort of story. I wish that older people were not isolated, made redundant, ignored. I wish that neighbors cared and made families to include the lonely who lived in their neighborhood. There is too much fear. What family invites an unknown lonely older man into their lives? We are conditioned to "stranger danger".

Also gives a firm push in the direction of self-sufficiency; learning skills, being capable of fixing things rather than just throwing them out and buying new as we are encouraged to do by our increasingly disposable society. Do you know how to drive a stick shift? back up a trailer? stabilize a ladder? make home repairs? We make sure our children get a college education so they can make a good salary but do we teach them to make plumbing repairs, change a tire, repair appliances?

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Mailed to a fellow bookcrosser to fulfill a wishlist request.

Arrived safely today. Thank you! Thanks for the bookmark, too!