Amat is grateful to be on the team, especially for his mother, who works as a cleaner. Recognizing that lack of speed is a weakness, senior team coach Sune and David agree to add underage junior Amat to improve their chances. The novel opens with the team and the community preparing for a key semi-final game. Maya is close friends with another girl, Ana. Peter's family consists of his wife Kira, and his children Maya and Leo. Peter Andersson is the General Manager of the team, and the new coach is David, after the previous coach was fired by the council for not focusing on winning enough. The star of the team is 17-year-old Kevin Erdahl, whose talent is so outstanding that the entire junior team has been built around him since he was about seven years old.
The junior hockey team is the backbone of the small town of Beartown, where a win in the national games would mean more resources given to the team. In 2018, the Rockingham County School Board removed the book from the reading list of McMichael High, a high school in North Carolina, when parents described it as "vulgar" and "graphic".
It is the first book in the Beartown series, followed by Us Against You and The Winners. The story follows the events leading up to the rape of 15-year-old girl Maya Andersson by the star junior hockey player Kevin Erdahl, and the consequences for Maya and Kevin, the players, their families, friends, and the community which has a long-standing reputation as a hockey town.
The novel, noted as " hockey literature", centers on a declining youth hockey team in a small town. Beartown (original title in Swedish: Björnstad) is a novel by Swedish writer Fredrik Backman.
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