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Categories: Science fiction Fantasy Mystery Romance Business Classic Sports Young adult Humor Memoirs See all categories... |
The Scarlets are hard-hitting, tough-talking hockey players. There's brash Toad, confident and witty, and theres troubled Hal, unofficial team captain, whose mother is terminally ill. There's French Pelly and there's hilarious Heezer, who waitresses at Hooters to pay the rent. And then theres Iz.Iz has a long, fraught relationship with her sport. Her dad, who died before she was born, was a hockey star, and her grandparents have shaped her life around this game that is supposed to be her destiny. But when she leaves her grandmother behind for the university team, she can't quite find her own place in the game.From the rowdy hilarity of the Scarlets locker room to quiet, lyrical contemplations and with a little beer-bonging and a lot of hockey along the way Iz tries to navigate the ways loss plays out on the ice. Both fast-paced and hesitant, Twenty Miles celebrates women's hockey and offers an uncompromising look at the ways in which the sport haunts the women who play it.