To put it as simply as possible, the stories are different vignettes of Ove’s life that all come together to a cohesive end.

If you like melodrama and feel-good stories, I think you’d like this book. Personally, I’ve read both Anxious People and A Man Called Ove, and they felt like unedited, unabridged scripts of a Hallmark family film.

I really enjoy listening to the audiobook while reading, especially if there are a lot of non-English names and terms so I can hear the pronunciations. I listen to them at 2x speed while reading (it’s the fastest I can get without the audio being unintelligible to me). I can read faster silently if I count purely words per minute like when I read newspapers, etc., but I think it helps me retain story and characters better to be fully immersed.