Beartown by Fredrik Backman #literature Aristia hopes to recuperate and

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Beartown by Fredrik Backman #literature Aristia hopes to recuperate andFROM THE MULTI MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MY FRIENDS, ANXIOUS PEOPLE AND A MAN CALLED OVE, FREDRIK BACKMAN From the author of MY FRIENDS, the Sunday Times Bestseller and Goodreads Choice Awards Fiction 2025 winner! In a large Swedish forest, Beartown hides a dark secret . . . Cut off from everywhere else, it experiences the kind of isolation that tears people apart. And each year, more and more of the town is swallowed by the forest. Then the