jedonsg 's review for:

The Winners by Fredrik Backman

3.0

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All of the Beartown books are pretty depressing. Let's get that out of the way first. Something about the way they were written kept me going though. Y'know the narrative device used in the classic Christmas film "It's A Wonderful Life (1946)" where the first half of the film consists of seemingly omniscient angels discussing the ins and outs of a man's life up to the point where they're about to intervene? They seem to know not just what happened, but how George Bailey and co. felt about what happened? Beartown kind of feels like that, just without the whimsical humor and the part about somebody intervening to make everything okay. 'Cause boy are things not okay. Can't say I recommend these books, but I wouldn't necessarily try to get people to avoid them either.