After she dies of cancer, Ove visits her grave weekly and leaves pink flowers on her headstone. Sonja worked to make life as bright and lively as possible, though Ove was constantly bewildered by her refusal to adhere to his carefully laid travel plans or routines and insisted she didn't understand his desire to live according to principles. Rather than spend the rest of her life grieving, Sonja threw herself into teaching troubled students to read Shakespeare. There, they were involved in a bus accident that paralyzed Sonja from the waist down and caused her to miscarry her pregnancy. Right after she and Ove got married and moved into their row house, they went to Spain on a bus tour. She grew up with her father and a massive cat, Ernest, and met Ove when she moved to town to study to be a teacher. She also loved talking, and Ove loved listening to her talk. She was very beautiful and loved color, chaos, and the humanities.
Sonja is Ove's late wife, who dies six months before the start of the novel.
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