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Fredrik Backman, author of the immensely popular A Man Called Ove among other novels, says he never writes with a large group of readers in mind. “When I write, I imagine myself writing for 20 people, and 18 of them like me, and that’s my crowd. I want the book to feel like you and I are sitting down at a table, we’re having a beer, and I’m telling you a story.” (GoodReads)

His Beartown trilogy sprang from his love of hockey. The story is not just about a group of men playing hockey but also about loyalty and self-worth. It explores politics and human weakness as well. He wanted to write a story that shares “all the best parts of sports that I know, all the things that make me love it, and also tell the difficult questions, the things that are really hard to get a grasp on and try to show that it’s complex.”