Us Against You By: Fredrik Backman

 don't know why I do this to myself-I know if I pick up a book by Fredrik Backman I'm going to end up sobbing!  And I did...for the last quarter of this book.  Backman knows how to present difficult topics with an ease that belies the struggles behind them.  The town of Beartown is the main character in this book (as well as in Beartown), and it's characters is shaped by it's denizens and vice versa.  You'll be caught up in everything that happens, you'll take a side, you'll switch sides (several times), and what you'll left with a deeper understanding of the human condition (as well as red puffy eyes and a runny nose)!