Simmering tensions between the two towns turn into acts of intimidation and then violence. Maya’s parents, meanwhile, are caught up in an investigation of the hockey club’s murky finances, and Amat-once the star of the Beartown team-has lost his way after an injury and a failed attempt to get drafted into the NHL. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a better life, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. The destruction caused by a ferocious late-summer storm reignites the old rivalry between Beartown and the neighboring town of Hed, a rivalry which has always been fought through their ice hockey teams. Everyone has tried to move on, but there’s something about this place that prevents it. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Over the course of two weeks, everything in Beartown will change. Return to the close-knit, resilient community of Beartown with this “engrossing page-turner” ( Woman’s World) about first loves, second chances, and last goodbyes-from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People and A Man Called Ove.
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