People see Britt-Marie as an old bat and a nag-bag: she obsesses over the order of forks, knives, and spoons in the cutlery drawer, insists on using a specific brand of window cleaner, and is “socially incompetent.” Newly divorced and unemployed at age sixty-three, Britt-Marie finds herself in the small community of Borg, a town…
The Theban Plays are a collection of three plays, originally written by Sophocles between 442 and 401 B.C. Respectively titled “King Oedipus,” “Oedipus at Colonus,” and “Antigone,” the plays follow the life of King Oedipus and eventually that of his youngest daughter, Antigone. Chronologically, “King Oedipus” takes place first. The tale begins in Thebes, a…
The second of three short stories in Fredrik Backman’s collection, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer is a warm, wistful narration of a journey: a journey toward the end of an old man’s life. However, the old man isn’t just an old man—he’s a father, husband, and most importantly, a grandfather….