“Hog doesn’t understand what the hell is going on, there’s never been a girlfriend in the house before, so he tentatively asks Tess what she’d like for breakfast, then he makes her promise that if Bobo ever behaves badly toward her, she’s to tell Hog so he can kill him. Tess smiles and promises.”

“Hog doesn’t understand what the hell is going on, there’s never been a girlfriend in the house before, so he tentatively asks Tess what she’d like for breakfast, then he makes her promise that if Bobo ever behaves badly toward her, she’s to tell Hog so he can kill him. Tess smiles and promises.”

— Fredrik Backman