As fiction, this book probably would not work. However, the truth of Tom Malmquist's experiences could well make you love him.

You may hear that IN EVERY MOMENT WE ARE STILL ALIVE is Malmquist's story of the death of his long-time girlfriend and his learning to become a single father. But it's not so simple as that.

He also describes, in great detail, staying by his girlfriend's side; dealing with the bureaucracy of Sweden's healthcare system, courts, social services, etc.; reminisces; and his father's death so soon after his girlfriend's. It may be more then you want to know.

And if you care about readability, Malmquist, apparently, doesn't. That is, he doesn't use quotation marks and his paragraphs are long, sometimes pages long. More often than not, whole conversations are in a single paragraph, with no quotation marks. So it's difficult to know who is talking when. I don't think this can be blamed on the translation from Swedish to English.

Even so, you can't help but love this guy. He was so devoted to his girlfriend and, now, to his baby girl.