If you read a hundred reviews of A Man Called Ove, I can almost guarantee that 90 percent will include the words "heartwarming" or "charming," often both. This is the story of a grumpy old man (Get off my lawn!) who proves to have a "heart of gold" (80 percent of reviews will include this phrase). It is entirely predictable and unabashedly manipulative. It will make you laugh (it is actually very, very funny) and it will make you cry, not because it is sad but because it is "touching" (many reviews will include this word).
If you are an adult who laughed and cried at the touching and charming and heartwarming animated movie Up, then you will like this book because it is basically the same scenario; only the details are different. I am one of those adults and I enjoyed this book--very much.
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