That means if you click and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission. This and the many nameless characters who nonetheless kept showing up (which felt like it conflicted with Backman's impulse to give stories to side characters) were my only complaints about Us Against You.īeartown is not a place where I would want to live, but Backman infuses it with such soul that I will always want to visit. I'm a sucker for this type of thing, so it worked for me-I love getting small insights into tertiary characters.Įven so, there were moments where the "showing the good side" of every character felt a little overdone. While Backman builds the tension, he also shows the humanity behind every person involved. While some stories have an easy villain, this isn't one of them. And violence.Īs the rivalry grows more intense, Beartown fights to keep its team alive and the face-offs happen both on and off the ice. Now, in the aftermath of a rape committed by its star player and a defection by the majority of the team to neighboring Hed, it also means divisiveness. Hockey means everything, but it also means different things to the various residents of Beartown: the past, the future, identity, escape, belonging. Us Against You brings us back to Beartown, the town where Backman's previous novel of the same name is set.
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