A Man Called Ove

by Fredrik Backman

The young man stands there waving, setting his fat breasts into motion under his T-shirt.

Wtf???????

“I just wanted to know what it felt like to be someone you look at.”

:')

Maybe their sorrow over children that never came should have brought the two men closer. But sorrow is unreliable in that way. When people don’t share it there’s a good chance that it will drive them apart instead.

“The great thing about scrutinizing bureaucracy when you’re a journalist, you see, is that the first people to break the laws of bureaucracy are always the bureaucrats themselves.”