Barnes & Noble has chosen My Friends by Fredrik Backman (Atria) as its May national book club pick. In a live virtual event on Friday, May 23, at 3 p.m. Eastern, Backman will be in conversation with Lexie Smyth, category manager for fiction at B&N and Brenda Allison, frontlist buyer at B&N.
B&N described the book this way: "My Friends, the newest novel from the author of A Man Called Ove, follows four teens who forged a bond that neither time nor circumstance has ever broken. The story unfolds in alternating timelines between present day and twenty-five years ago, the summer one of our teenage protagonists created what would become his most famous piece of artwork. Backman has once again masterfully penned a tale of loveable, flawed and fully realized characters in search of connection. You will laugh, you will cry, and you will want to stretch this read out beyond the last page."
Click here to join the May 23 event.
