Book Review: "The Deal of a Lifetime" By Fredrik Backman

"Happy people don’t create anything, their world is one without art and music and skyscrapers, without discoveries and innovations. All leaders, all of your heroes, they’ve been obsessed. Happy people don’t get obsessed, they don’t devote their lives to curing illnesses or making planes take off. The happy leave nothing behind. They live for the sake of living, they’re only on earth as consumers. Not me.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Deal of a Lifetime

We have a father who cared more about his career than his own son...

Overwhelmed by the responsibility of fatherhood, he took the easy way out and left his wife and little boy twenty years ago to pursue professional success. Now he is left wondering if it’s too late to forge a relationship with his son, who seems to be his opposite in every way—prizing happiness over money, surrounded by loving friends in a cozy town where he feels right at home.

Having divorced a malignant narcissist who did the very same I can't embrace this type of reality as I lived it and it was horrifying to process.

Our children should be our breath, our life, our legacy and not our branding tool, not our shaming belt, not our hypocrisy to life. He did eventually reflect but look at what it took for such reflection.

As you can tell I didn't feel connected as the novella was way too short. Beartown was inserted into this which took up many of the pages. In addition, the highlight was the saddest because of the girl with cancer that caused him to rethink his ways upon financial security and wealth.

So there ya have it -do with it what ya will.

Thank you to Cloud Library and Bibliotheca for this ARC