Most of the hockey players opt to play for Beartown’s bitter rival neighboring small town of Hed, where their former coach has also gone. The general manager and his family face vicious pressures to also leave town. The never-convicted rapist was subsequently frightened out of his wits by his victim and he and his family are leaving town. Everyone in town remains convinced the scandal was the only thing that prevented the national glory the team was on the brink of achieving and by doing so igniting the community’s economic revival. Months earlier the teenage daughter of the general manager of its beloved junior hockey team was raped by the team’s star player. This remote small town in a forest is still reeling from scandal. In “Us Against You,” the characters we came to know in “Beartown” are back, and a few new ones introduced. His characters are always so well developed you feel as if you know them and how they think and see things. “Beartown” showed that Fredrik Backman has the ability to make readers understand the feelings of each of a dozen different characters every bit as well as when he wowed us when focused on a single central character.
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