Bear Town by Fredrick Backman

As much as I loved A Man Called Ove, I hated this book.  It was not that it was badly written but I hated having to read about the jock culture.  I hated the bullying.  I hate the price Maya must pay to try and fit into this culture.  I guess the fact that this story of playing hockey in a small town in Sweden has the capacity to make me so outraged is probably a good thing if that was Backman's intent.  To be fair, there is a lot to think about in terms of family and community and personal responsibility but the argument that being good at a sport is an excuse for bad behavior just doesn't fly for me.