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Violence
None
No violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language; Backman's translated-from-Swedish style
Sexual Content
None
No sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
Some
The emotional weight of a woman who has made herself small to keep the peace — and the cost of that self-erasure — is the novel's moving subject
What this book is about
Fredrik Backman's companion to My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry follows Britt-Marie, an obsessively tidy woman in her early sixties who leaves her husband after discovering infidelity and accidentally takes a job managing a youth recreation center in a forgotten town called Borg. The novel is warm, funny, and quietly moving about a woman rediscovering herself. Backman's characteristic sentimentality is fully present. Appropriate for all adult readers.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Themes of self-erasure and late-life rediscovery
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