He moved from Sweden to Pittsburgh and started driving a Chevy instead of a Saab. He just didn’t like others thinking he needed their help.Īs I adapted Ove’s story to an American setting, I made a number of changes along the way in order to help settle him into his new home.
If you saw my dad in those moments and didn’t know him, you’d probably assume he was always that cranky by nature. Sadly, much of his ire was reserved for hapless waiters who made the mistake of trying to help him get seated in a restaurant - or, God forbid, offered to read him the entrees on the menu. Dad’s grumpy side usually came out in public settings when he found himself unable to do simple things that he had once taken for granted.
One can suffer through only so much real pain in silence before it expresses itself in other ways.
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