"He was a man of black and white. And she was color. All the color he had." 
 "Ove had never been asked how he lived before he met her. But if anyone had asked him, he would have answered that he didn't." 
 It has taken me too long to get my thoughts together on this book. 
 But, I MUST work through my emotions & write my review.. (I'm tearing up just writing those quotes, up there!) 
 This book tore me into a million tiny pieces and left me scattered all over the floor. I'm serious. 
 First of all, the book took a completely different direction than I had anticipated. I expected a story about a grumpy old man who is set in his "old fashioned" ways and a book full of funnny stories about his journey navigating the modern world. 
 WRONG!! 
 Well, not entirely wrong, but if you're looking for a book that will play on your heartstrings, you needn't look further. 
 "A Man Called Ove" does start with a funny little encounter between Ove and a young employee at an electronics shop. Ove is fussing because he doesn't understand how computers have evolved over the years & he doesn't understand that technically, an i-pad is a computer. Although this was funny & what I had expected in the book, I'm not going to lie. I was bored. I had a hard time understanding anything that was going on & I could not, for the life of me, understand why Ove kept staring at the ceiling talking about hooks, or why his conversations with his wife Sonja seemed to be one-sided. 
 THEN I READ CHAPTER FOUR!!!! 
 This is where I was torn into a million tiny pieces. I fell in love with the characters & I started to feel sad for Ove. I just wanted to step inside of bookland & hug him and talk to him. I wanted to be Parvaneh! I wanted to punch everyone with a white shirt right in the middle of their nose! I wanted to kick Tom where it hurts. I wanted to go out and buy a Saab! 
 After reading about Ove's childhood, I could absolutely understand why he turned out the way he did. He took good manners from his father and he had to deal with asshole "grownups" who acted more like a child than the child they were being childish toward! 
 Seriously. I love this book and it will probably forever remain one of my favorites. I have never been so emotionally torn by a book before. (I know I wrote about Thirteen Reasons Why bothering me, but this book takes the cake) I cried on so many different parts. I cried towards the end, then I was given hope & what happened? The very end came around and stomped on my heart, yet again. 
 I was happy to see Ove getting over his ill wishes towards himself and his neighbors. I was ecstatic when the neighborhood started banding together to fight for one another. I was tickled when Ove decided to buy his self-proclaimed granddaughter her first ipad so she could draw. I cried when Ove put the drawings on his refrigerator. 
 I am absolutely convinced that the cat was a representation of Sonja. So many people have been complaining about how badly Ove treated the cat, but he wasn't fond of cats; however, at the end of the day, he is the one who brought it in & gave it shelter. All throughout the book I think there were little things hinting that the cat was either 
 a) a reincarnation of Sonja 
 b) sent to Ove purposely to remind him of Sonja 
 c) sent to help Ove realize that anything is possible and that times change. 
 Seriously, the cat would put it's paw on Ove like Sonja would.... 
 Anyways, I would HIGHLY recommend this book to any and every one! If you like to cry, if you like to laugh, if you like to be curmudgeon! Ove is relatable and I love him, dearly!