“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. This is the story of how we got there.”
And so begins Beartown, Swe-dish author Fredrik Backman’s fourth novel. Unlike his past works – his magnificent debut A Man Called Ove (2012), My Grandmother Sends Her Regards And Apologies (2013), and Britt-Marie Was Here (2014) – all of which focus on the titular protagonists, this time around Backman shifts his attention to a whole community.
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