Beartown

People say Beartown is finished, a town on the edge of nowhere in economic decline. But the junior ice hockey team is competing in the national semi-finals with a real shot at winning, and all the town's hopes rest on a group of teenage boys. Then the semi-final becomes the catalyst for a violent act that traumatizes a young girl and sends the town into turmoil, forcing everyone to decide what they truly stand for. A novel about the hopes that unite a community, the secrets that tear it apart, and the courage to go against the grain.