Britt-Marie Was Here

Britt-Marie isn’t the easiest person to deal with. It’s not that she’s especially stubborn, capricious, or nitpicky—she’s simply absolutely sure that there must be perfect order, always, everywhere, and in everything. But all that order collapses in an instant when Britt-Marie learns that Kent—the man with whom she’s lived in an exemplary marriage for forty years—cheated on her. She makes an astonishing decision, unexpected even for herself: pack a suitcase and go wherever her eyes look. In a backwater provincial town with not-so-welcoming residents, Britt-Marie will have to build a new life—one completely unlike the old. How did the heroine of Fredrik Backman’s novel become a role model for women who have survived betrayal? You’ll learn from an article in