Wendy Fink’s Best Reads of 2016

My name is Wendy Fink.  My husband Matt and I have raised our three children in Evanston (where we have resided for almost 30 years).  I like to read, knit, cook, scrapbook and exercise.  I volunteer at EPL and ETHS regularly.

1)   A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman (2014)

I relished the delightful character development of Ove from a depressed bitter man seeking to check out of life into a warm giving grandfather figure in his Swedish community.  The simple narrative style and sparse dialogue work well to mimic Ove himself.