Beartown: A Novel (Beartown Series)
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“You’ll love this engrossing novel.” —People
Named a Best Book of the Year by LibraryReads, BookBrowse, and Goodreads
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People, a dazzling and profound novel about a small town with a big dream—and the price required to make it come true.
By the lake in Beartown is an old ice rink, and in that ice rink Kevin, Amat, Benji, and the rest of the town’s junior ice hockey team are about to compete in the national semi-finals—and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys.
Under that heavy burden, the match becomes the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatized and a town in turmoil. Accusations are made and, like ripples on a pond, they travel through all of Beartown.
This is a story about a town and a game, but even more about loyalty, commitment, and the responsibilities of friendship; the people we disappoint even though we love them; and the decisions we make every day that come to define us. In this story of a small forest town, Fredrik Backman has found the entire world.
“You’ll love this engrossing novel.” —People
Named a Best Book of the Year by LibraryReads, BookBrowse, and Goodreads
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People, a dazzling and profound novel about a small town with a big dream—and the price required to make it come true.
By the lake in Beartown is an old ice rink, and in that ice rink Kevin, Amat, Benji, and the rest of the town’s junior ice hockey team are about to compete in the national semi-finals—and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys.
Under that heavy burden, the match becomes the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatized and a town in turmoil. Accusations are made and, like ripples on a pond, they travel through all of Beartown.
This is a story about a town and a game, but even more about loyalty, commitment, and the responsibilities of friendship; the people we disappoint even though we love them; and the decisions we make every day that come to define us. In this story of a small forest town, Fredrik Backman has found the entire world.
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I love all of this authors books. It was hard to get into at first because it seem to be mostly about hockey. I'm glad I kept with it. It ended up being a story about everyday people and the way humans act, feel and treat others. These people also happen to live and breathe hockey.
Beautiful and sad at the same time. I loved the descriptions of the psychology of small town interactions.
The ending does not tie all the loose ends. Storytelling is very realistic and emotionally complicated. TW: SA
âThis town doesnât always know the difference between right and wrong, Iâll admit that. But we know the difference between good and evil.â This book is about a hockey club in a small town in Sweden and how this community is rocked by a violent act. And yet itâs so much more than that. Fredrik Backman is writing about people and the human condition. I loved A Man Called Ove but this is by far his best book. So glad thereâs a sequel. Highly recommend.
Coming from a hockey state this book was extremely dull. Storyline. Depressing and story predictable. Won’t be reading more in the series. Although will try a man called Ove by the same author. There was a lot of necessary static in this storyline. Didn’t captivate me.
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