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My Friends
Most people look at the world's most famous seascape and see water. Eighteen-year-old Louisa looks closer and finds three tiny figures at the end of a pier — then spends a train ride learning how those friends, twenty-five years earlier, turned one brutal harbor-town summer into a painting that outlived them. Backman's novel is about found family, art that refuses to stay a landscape, and the people who call you one of us before you believe it.
“If you've had people who can make you laugh like that, you never forget it. If not, words are pointless.”
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My Friends This or That
Answer in under three seconds. No wrong answers — only revealing ones.
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Rapid fire (60 seconds)
Read these aloud as fast as the group can shout answers.
- 1. Postcard of a painting or The painting itself?
- 2. Spray paint or Watercolor?
- 3. Train window or End of a pier?
- 4. Coffee in a paper cup or Iced tea on a hot dock?
- 5. Skull doodles in the margin or Tiny people in the corner?
- 6. Museum quiet or Auction-house noise?
- 7. Keep the ticket stub or Keep the joke?
- 8. One legendary summer or Ten ordinary ones?
- 9. Cinnamon bun or Lemonade?
- 10. Sit on the wood or Jump in the water?