Beartown by Fredrik Backman

Available at West Vancouver Memorial Library in Book, Large Print Book, eBook, Kindle, Audiobook CD and eAudiobook formats.

LitLovers. "Fredrik Backman, Swedish author, journalist, and blogger, was voted Sweden's most successful author in 2013."

"Crime and punishment in small-town Sweden"

Readers Guide. "Beartown is much darker than Backman’s prior novels, and presents many themes including a theme of abuse and how a town divides between who to believe."

"Fredrik Backman puts out some of the most human novels."

Reading group guide.

"FICTION: A sexual assault divides a hockey town grasping for a last chance for fame, in a novel by the author of "A Man Called Ove."

"Dreaming of economic revival in a small Swedish town"