Beartown

I love Backman. This novel is more plot-driven than character-driven and makes sense they would pick it up for TV. I prefer A Man Called Ove and Anxious People as beautiful deep character studies, but found his delicate treatment of a difficult topic well done. His descriptions of a hockey town really resonated, as did the town people's reactions to the conflict. It felt real.
Having read his character novels first, it disappointed me that some characters weren't richer or deeper but he had a lot of characters to navigate (I couldn't distinguish David from Peter for a lot of the book.)
All of that to say this book is another great Backman novel. He's still my favourite :)