Beartown by Fredrik Backman
An old ice rink by the lake in Beartown is where Kevin, Amat, Benji, and the rest of the town’s junior ice hockey team will be competing in the national semi-finals—and they might even have a chance to win. A small group of teenage guys are now responsible for carrying out all of this community’s ambitions and dreams.
Under such oppressive weight, the match ignites a violent incident that leaves a young girl scarred and a town in disarray. Like waves on a pond, accusations are made and spread across the entire city of Beartown. This is a tale about a town and a game, but it’s also about commitment, loyalty, and the duties of friendship; about the people, we disappoint despite loving them; and about the daily choices we make that come to define us. Fredrik Backman has discovered the entire globe in this tale about a little community in the forest.
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
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Apart from the junior ice hockey club, Beartown is a little town with no possibilities for the future and is getting smaller by the day. This team is the town’s glimmer of hope, and it is around this team that the entire community is focused. As we come to know each character, the book begins very slowly. And there are many of them—enough to fill an entire town.
The sport of ice hockey is so deeply ingrained in Beartown’s culture that it practically defines the community. The town’s residents socialize through hockey, they live and breathe hockey, and they look to hockey to restore the town’s glory. The club is about to accomplish its biggest feat in a generation: its junior squad has advanced to the national league finals. Everything would change if the team won, including more sponsorship, local prominence, and even a new stadium. The team’s top player, motivated by his godlike position, does a single deed that threatens to destroy everything the club and the town have worked for at the height of the excitement.
The sport of ice hockey is so deeply ingrained in Beartown’s culture that it practically defines the community. The town’s residents socialize through hockey, they live and breathe hockey, and they look to hockey to restore the town’s glory. The club is about to accomplish its biggest feat in a generation: its junior squad has advanced to the national league finals. Everything would change if the team won, including more sponsorship, local prominence, and even a new stadium. The team’s top player, motivated by his godlike position, does a single deed that threatens to destroy everything the club and the town have worked for at the height of the excitement.
