Beartown series by Frederik Backman

Has anyone read this? I recommend it if you haven't. It's sort of a dark Friday Night Lights. Set in Sweden about a junior hockey team in a small town. The book focuses on several players and their families and the coach and his family. It's a trilogy and the third one just came out.

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Dark, haunting, utterly enthralling: Fredrik Backman’s Beartown is your next great read.

Fredrik Backman, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, returns with a dazzling, profound novel about a small town with a big dream—and the price required to make that dream come true.

“Late one evening toward the end of March, a teenager picked up a double-barrelled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to someone else’s forehead and pulled the trigger.” That is the first line of Beartown, a novel that will completely engross, dropping you into small-town life where time is strung together with hours on the rink.

Hockey is the last glimmer of hope for the people of Beartown, a small community isolated in the deep woods with a dying economy. In this remote and cold climate, the sound of pucks hitting walls is the only thriving pulse-beat. Much more than a game, hockey gives the last remaining citizens of Beartown a sense of purpose. But in Backman’s chilling novel, the rink is both the sanctuary from a hardened existence and also the backdrop of a sinister crime.

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