Beartown: A Novel (Beartown Series)

That’s the last time they see each other in their childhood. That ends tonight.

People sometimes say that sorrow is mental but longing is physical.

People feel pain. And it shrinks their souls.

Death does strange, incomprehensible things to loving souls.

Ramona refuses to let anyone say that he died; she says he left her, because that’s how she sees it. Like a betrayal. She’s been left standing in the snow like a bare tree trunk without any bark, unprotected now that he’s no longer here.

Isak.

A long marriage is complicated. So complicated, in fact, that most people in one sometimes ask themselves: “Am I still married because I’m in love, or just because I can’t be bothered to let anyone else get to know me this well again?”

Lars

Adri,