Minor characters include Sune, "the man who has been coach of Beartown's A-team since Peter was a boy," whom the sponsors now want fired. Kira, his wife, is an attorney with an aggressive, take-no-prisoners demeanor. Despite his love for hockey, where fights are part of the game, Peter hates violence.
Backman is a masterful writer, his characters familiar yet distinct, flawed yet heroic.
Now, after years of despair, the local club is on the cusp of a championship, but not without Kevin. Peter was lured home to bring winning hockey back to Beartown. The victim is Maya, the teenage daughter of the hockey club’s much-admired general manager, Peter, another Beartown golden boy, a hockey star who made it to the NHL. Beartown explodes after rape charges are brought against the talented Kevin, son of privilege and influence, who's nearly untouchable because of his transcendent talent. Swedish novelist Backman’s ( A Man Called Ove, 2014, etc.) story quickly becomes a rich exploration of the culture of hockey, a sport whose acolytes see it as a violent liturgy on ice. In Beartown, where the people are as "tough as the forest, as hard as the ice," the star player on the beloved hockey team is accused of rape, and the town turns upon itself.
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