I'm a Backman fan ... and I absolutely enjoyed this. I went with the audiobook, which was great, but I kept thinking "oh, I need to highlight that statement" either because it was a profound statement, something "discussable" in a book club type setting, something that made me laugh, or was just so well written I want to remember it. I had the Kindle copy as well (had to juggle some library holds to get them both at the same time, this is new/popular and in-demand, rightly so) so I was able to jump over to that for several, but I know I missed out on a lot. I see there are a lot of QUOTES already here on the Goodreads book page. 

Per usual, this is written in 3rd person/present tense ... this combo bugs me whenever almost any other author attempts it, but Backman?  It's his signature style, and when it's this well written ... it works. There are some portions in past-tense ... both Louisa's past, and the older storyline. There are two timelines, the present, and the time when the author and his friends were teens. Both slowly unfolding. Often I get annoyed with alternating timelines, getting so involved in one, then having to switch, but everything here moved so smoothly. Sometimes the poetry of the writing is just magical, and it's crazy to consider that it wasn't even originally written in English. Kudos to the translator as well.   

No discussion questions in the next, but I found a few from a simple Google search.  

Lots of humor to balance out the more serious stuff. I loved the different epigraphs discussed ... enter from the other side, Here lies a man who ate all his vegetables and died anyway, Does this coffin make me look fat? 

Profanity x 66.  
Snuck. Kind Eyes. Song spoken.