Beartown is a tiny town in Alaska where hockey is everything. The residents will go to great lengths to see their team thrive.

I was especially interested in reading Fredrik Backman’s writing and I had heard a lot of good things about this book. Unfortunately, I only made it about 50 pages before I had to quit because of the language. There was too much swearing and the overall vibe of the teenager’s language was crude. The event that takes place and forever changes the town was on the first page of the book and quite violent. I didn’t make it far enough to tell what exactly happened or why.