Ove is a 59-year-old widower who is ready to end life so he can just be with his wife again, but keeps getting interrupted in his attempts by mostly incompetent people who need his help.

I think the author and I got off on the wrong foot because he made his grumpy old man protagonist just a couple of years older than I am (and I'm not old dammit!). So time felt all off for me through the book. When Ove is dating his wife, it sounds like they're in the 1950s, but his current neighbor is an IT consultant.

For me, there were just a lot of unlikeable characters -- but maybe that's just the grumpy old man's view of the world (mine or Ove's, take your pick).