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Violence
Barely any
No significant violence
Language
Barely any
Mild language in Backman's warm literary register
Sexual Content
Barely any
Minimal adult content
Substance Use
Barely any
Some social drinking
Emotional Intensity
Some
The emotional weight of long friendship and the grief of aging — watching people and times you loved disappear — is the novel's sustained and moving subject
What this book is about
Fredrik Backman's novel explores the messy bonds of long friendship and what happens to groups of people as they age, lose, and try to stay connected. Backman writes with his characteristic warmth and emotional directness; the humor is present but the weight of aging and grief gives the novel its substance. Adult literary fiction appropriate for adult readers.
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