About the Book: Beartown
A town this small cant afford to take sides. But when the worst happens, whose
side would you take? Late one evening towards the end of March, a teenager
picked up a double-barrelled shotgun, walked into the forest, put the gun to
someone elses forehead and pulled the trigger. This is the story of how we got
there. Beartown is a small town in a large Swedish forest. For most of the year
it is under a thick blanket of snow, experiencing the kind of cold and dark that
brings people closer together - or pulls them apart. Its isolation means that
Beartown