Summary

In Chapter 4, Britt-Marie gets a job in Borg, a small community on a road that leads out of the town in both directions. Most of the businesses there are closed. Britt-Marie’s job is at the recreation center. She will work there the remaining month that it will be open. The narrator indicates that soccer and the pizzeria are the only things that still exist in the town.

As Britt-Marie drives into the parking lot at the recreation center she believes there is an explosion in the passenger side of her car. The car stops in front of the pizzeria and Britt-Marie gets out. She uses her cell phone to call the girl at the unemployment office first to ask where the post office is and also to complain about her car blowing up. She cannot hear the girl so she hangs up...