In this story of a small forest town, Fredrik Backman has found the entire world. Accusations are made and, like ripples on a pond, they travel through all of Beartown, leaving no resident unaffected.īeartown explores the hopes that bring a small community together, the secrets that tear it apart, and the courage it takes for an individual to go against the grain. but trapped in the hedonistic world of 1920s Havana. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys.īeing responsible for the hopes of an entire town is a heavy burden, and the semi-final match is the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatized and a town in turmoil. A stunning novel about two Russian Jewish sisters, desperate to get to the U.S. The world becomes easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. Their junior ice hockey team is about to compete in the national semi-finals, and they actually have a shot at winning. Quotes from Beartown Fredrik Backman 432 pages Rating: (61.7K votes) Get the book Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better than today. The town and the parents of the Beartown junior hockey team place great expectations on the shoulders of seventeen-year-old boys. What does hockey mean to the people of Beartown What does winning the semifinal mean for the town's future 2. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. Beartown by Fredrik Backman Discussion Questions: 1.

A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees.

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