Beartown

“Bitterness can be corrosive. It can rewrite your memories as if it were scrubbing a crime scene clean, until in the end you only remember what suits you of its causes.”

The books deals, of course, with a heavy topic but the at the core is not what happened but aspects of the human condition overall. The author describes very vividly the core of a small town and its inhabitants, it could be a town anywhere, the fundamentals still apply. He's also good at characterization, it's easy to get into the minds of these characters so it's not surprising when you end up caring for them. The way he describes hokey is also skillful. I am, generally, completely uninterested in sports but throughout reading this book I actually got it.

Even though I greatly appreciated this book there was still something holding me back from getting completely immersed it, I can't put my finger on what it was. Maybe the pacing?