Title: Beartown
Author: Fredrik Backman
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Do you ever look for a book that can make you cheer? Cry? Hope? And really think about the world that you are living in?
This book doesn't offer any simple answers. It is a vivid account of a town torn apart by the events of a single night, and of the week that followed. It is about a town that is built on dreams, and that survives by casting those dreams on the newest generations. It is a town that is united by hockey... and torn apart by hockey, just as easily.
This story, this town, this community stole my heart and made me wish, just for a moment, that problems could come with simple solutions. I wished that there was an answer that let everyone win, and ended with everyone feeling satisfied with the consequences. But this book is set in reality, and those answers seldom exist.
However, this book, told from many perspectives embodying the story of the town itself, welcomes the reader in to see the situation from all sides, to genuinely hope for the "little guy" to find the strength to do the right thing, and to be surprised at where loyalties lie when it all falls apart.
Besides, there's a hockey season next year, too.
- Katrina
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