And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

by Fredrik Backman

“We lived an extraordinarily ordinary life.” “An ordinarily extraordinary life.”

. . . she . . . that’s your grandma. She was younger. You never got to meet her young, she has . . . she had the strongest feelings I ever experienced in a person, when she got angry she could empty a full bar of grown men, and when she was happy . . . there was no defending yourself against that, Noahnoah. She was a force of nature. Everything I am came from her, she was my Big Bang.”