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by riehwvfbk 619 days ago
It may help to learn the personal story behind the book. A lot of it is based on Lindgren's own childhood and young adulthood. She was quite the character: gave up her son to a foster family, married a real-life "gentleman spy" character, then worked as a government censor reading other people's letters. Whatever her life was, it was definitely not boring.