My Friends
I get it now. The hype over Fredrik Backman is real, and in the case of this book - my first of his - it’s well deserved! It’ll be in my year-end favorites. Many authors can write a decent, well-written book that can hold my interest, but then there are those special few, like him, who capture my imagination with rich, immersive storytelling that leaves me hanging on their every word, creating the kind of memories that remind me why I love reading. Louisa is a day away from eighteen, having spent her life in foster care. She hasn’t loved many things, but one thing she does love is art. When she finds herself in front of one the world’s most famous paintings “The One of the Sea” that depicts three friends hanging out on the end of a pier, a misunderstanding finds her running from security and straight into the path of the artist who painted it. That simple moment will change her life in unforeseeable ways and introduce her to the much bigger story of how that painting came to...
