"Louisa is a teenager, the best kind of person. The proof of this is very simple: little kids believe teenagers are the best people, and teenagers believe teenagers are the best people—the only ones who don’t believe teenagers are the best people are adults. And that obviously happens because adults are the worst kind of people.

It is one of the last days before Easter. Very soon, Louisa is about to be thrown out of an art auction for vandalizing a valuable painting. The elderly ladies will scream, the police will come, and really none of this was planned. Not to brag, but Louisa had actually devised a perfect plan; it’s not the plan’s fault that she decided not to stick to it. Because sometimes Louisa is a genius, but sometimes she is not a genius, and the problem is that both the genius and the non-genius share the same brain. But the plan? It was perfect.

The auction is a place where extremely wealthy people go to buy hugely expensive works of art, so it goes without saying that teenagers are not welcome there—especially teenagers carrying backpacks full of spray paint."

"Fredrik Backman is an author you don't just 'like.' He is an author you feel you love, as if he were your friend, as if he were one of your own people, as if you often meet in the neighborhood and chat at a café or a bar. That is one of his characteristics…"

— Athens Voice AthensVoice

"…a disarmingly funny, deeply human, and moving story — a book that, as the Goodreads fans say, 'is Backman's best so far.'"

— The TOC / Culture News

Fredrik Backman is one of the most successful Swedish authors of his generation. He was born in 1981 in Stockholm and began his career as a columnist and blogger. He gained international recognition in 2012 with the novel “A Man Called Ove”, which was successfully adapted into a film.

His works are distinguished by their subtle humor, deep empathy, and his ability to portray everyday, often eccentric characters with great humanity. He has written bestsellers such as “My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry” and the trilogy “The City of the Marquis.” His books have been translated into more than 40 languages, touching the hearts of millions of readers worldwide.