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Beartown by Fredrik Backman
4.0

I mean, there's a lot of ice hockey. It's pretty slow in the build up but once momentum gets going it gets better. Some of it feels a bit cheesy and a bit melodramatic. There are particular bits that are really badly drawn. The wife's colleague, who never gets a name - just a pair of lips and tits really - which really annoyed me. There was no need. But it handles the subject well. The mix of team spirit,. fraternity and how that mingles with toxic masculinity, economics and sexism was handled realistically I think.