Beartown (Beartown, #1)

by Fredrik Backman

Never again do you find friends like the ones you have when you’re fifteen years old.

People were so quick to decide what the truth was that they bought pay-as-you-go phones just to be able to tell her what she is without her knowing who they are.

Whenever anything, anything at all, was really bad, it was “gay.” When something didn’t work, it was “gay.” It was more than just a concept, it was an adverb, an adjective, a grammatical weapon.