Beartown

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All of that is tackled in one way or another, yet you never feel overwhelmed or like too much is going on.

A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees. We at Penguin Random House Australia acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the Traditional Custodians and the first storytellers of the lands on which we live and work. I wasn't sure I would love a novel centred on hockey - but as with Friday Night Lights this is actually a story about people - about strength and tribal loyalty and what we unwittingly do when trying to show our boys how to be men. I also loved how Backman used hockey as a tool to bring people’s strengths and weaknesses to the surface.A story about families, about friendship and loyalty, inequality, female vulnerability, male back-slapping, and parenthood . It is getting smaller and smaller each year, as there are less and less jobs and not many things that would attract new people and investors.

And, when a teenage boy becomes alienated and seeks revenge on the people he deems responsible for his sister’s death, someone won’t live through it. The juniors bully Amat, and David subjects him to a cruel one-on-one training exercise against a massive player, Bobo.Everything and everyone in Beartown is tightly-knit in a web of circumstances that will unfold as the plot ensues. The Pack is a group of about 30 or 40 angry young men who feel they’ve been abandoned by the local economy. It divides the town into those who think it should be hushed up and forgotten, and those who'll risk the future to see justice done. His subsequent books include My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry, Britt-Marie Was Here, and nonfiction title Things My Son Needs to Know About the World. After the season ends, Sune helps start a girls’ hockey team in Beartown—a first step toward challenging the town’s sexist hockey culture.