👶👶👶👶: Us Against You, by Fredrik Backman

Fredrik Backman, how I love thee😍. Everything he writes hits home for me. As mentioned in my Beartown review, Backman just has a knack for understanding the human condition, all our ins and outs, strengths and weaknesses. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he had a degree in psychology or sociology - he just gets it!

In this sequel to Beartown, we once again enter this small hockey community still in the midst of the unraveling triggered by Kevin Erdahl's crime. The novel slowly unfolds with each character's story, but Backman's brilliance is in the connections that readers don't see until later when they are skillfully woven together from the fragments.

Now that funds have been redirected to their nemesis, the neighboring town of Hed, Beartown is forced to regroup despite the raw emotion of it all. In the midst of all the change, new challenges arise, fresh loyalties are forged, and everyone's limits are tested.

This novel was just as well written as Beartown with even more intricacies and a fee new characters to fall in love with.

Read 8/29/22