It begins: “Late one evening toward the end of March a teenager picked up a double barrel shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone else’s forehead and pulled the trigger.”
Beartown is the story of how we got there. In this story of a small town, Fredrik Backman has found the entire world.
It’s a slow building story that explores the strengths and weaknesses of a small town and how the exposure of a hidden crime directs the lives of all the players. It tells of an amateur hockey team and the hopes the town places on their winning;