The next meeting of the Central St. Matthew Daytime Book Club will be Thursday, March 22 at 10 am at the home of Arlean Fermanis.  Call Arlean at 504-289-7647 if you need directions.We will be reading A Man Called Ove: A Novel by Fredrik Bachman.

It is available at Amazon for $10.13 in paper back and $12.99 in the Kindle edition.  The New Orleans library and the Jefferson library have copies available.

From the Amazon web site:

“Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter neighbor from hell.” But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn’t walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time?

Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove’s mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt cats, unexpected friendship, and the ancient art of backing up a U-Haul. All of which will change one cranky old man and a local residents’ association to their very foundations.

A feel-good story in the spirit of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand, Fredrik Backman’s novel about the angry old man next door is a thoughtful exploration of the profound impact one life has on countless others.”

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