But if, like me, you are a sports fan, you’ll find yourself whispering, “Oh yes, this!” and nodding along to paragraphs.īackman nails all the complexities of sport, whether you love it or hate it, play it, coach it or support it, or simply live in a town where it dominates life. Its people will draw you into their stories long before the sport is caught up in the blades of a moral face-off. You don’t need to follow or even like sports, let alone ice hockey, to enjoy Beartown. Who will speak up? Could you stand by and stay silent? Or would you risk everything for justice? Which side would you be on? It divides the town into those who think it should be hushed up and forgotten, and those who’ll risk the future to see justice done. But it is all put in jeopardy by a single, brutal act. Then the town is offered a bright new future. And each year more and more of the town is swallowed by the forest. Ĭut-off from everywhere else it experiences the kind of isolation that tears people apart. In a large Swedish forest Beartown hides a dark secret. Not one of those was Beartown but when one of the book groups I’m in chose it as this month’s read, Beartown became my first Backman. I’ve had three of Fredrik Backman’s books waiting patiently on my bookshelves for a while now.
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