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Some books you read fast, just to find out what happens. And some books you force yourself to slow down for, because you already know you’ll miss them once they’re over. My Friends was the second kind for me. I came in with high expectations Backman has this way of writing that seems simple until…

I’ll admit I picked up this book without knowing quite what to expect. All I knew was that it was short, set in the arid backlands of northeastern Brazil, and that it had a giant saint’s head somewhere in the story. And honestly, that was enough to make me curious. What it’s about Samuel loses…