Backman’s writing in A Man Called Ove was impeccable-he takes that vocabulary and skill and applies it to a harsher topic in Beartown. None of the other books I’ve finished recently really lent themselves to being reviewed (or, I didn’t really want to review some of them), and so this seemed like a good time to pull Beartown back out.īeartown is one of those books that sits with you-it’s impactful as you’re reading it, as you finish, and even months later. I finished Beartown shortly before I started this blog and I always meant to go back and review it. When one of their own rapes a classmate right before the game that could change the fortunes of the dying town, the question becomes –who and what does Beartown love most?Īdmittedly, this is the longest distance between the date I’ve read a book and reviewed a book. In the forest, there’s a town that loves hockey, whose identify is defined by the cuts of skates on ice, the check of bodies on the boards. Late one evening toward the end of March, a teenager picked up a double-barreled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone else’s forehead, and pulled the trigger.
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