Fiction Addiction Book Club: Beartown: A Novel by Fredrik Bachman

Name: Fiction Addiction Book Club: Beartown: A Novel by Fredrik Bachman
Start: 2026-01-20T16:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-01-20T17:30:00-05:00
Location: 9318 Apison Pike, Ooltewah, TN, United States, Tennessee 37363

Schedule

Tue Jan 20 2026 at 04:30 pm to 05:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

9318 Apison Pike, Ooltewah, TN, United States, Tennessee 37363 | Ooltewah, TN

Fiction Addiction Book Club will be discussing Beartown:A Novel by Fredrik Bachman.
Named a Best Book of the Year by LibraryReads, BookBrowse, and Goodreads
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People, a dazzling and profound novel about a small town with a big dream—and the price required to make it come true.
By the lake in Beartown is an old ice rink, and in that ice rink Kevin, Amat, Benji, and the rest of the town’s junior ice hockey team are about to compete in the national semi-finals—and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys.
Under that heavy burden, the match becomes the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatized and a town in turmoil. Accusations are made and, like ripples on a pond, they travel through all of Beartown.
This is a story about a town and a game, but even more about loyalty, commitment, and the responsibilities of friendship; the people we disappoint even though we love them; and the decisions we make every day that come to define us. In this story of a small forest town, Fredrik Backman has found the entire world.
Fredrik Bachman is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry, Britt-Marie Was Here, Beartown, Us Against You, The Winners, Anxious People and two novellas, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer and The Deal of a Lifetime, as well as one work of nonfiction, Things My Son Needs to Know About the World. His books are published in more than forty countries. His next novel, My Friends, will be published in May 2025. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and two children. Connect with him on Facebook and Twitter @BackmanLand or on Instagram @Backmansk.