We Ride Upon Sticks - Quan Barry
Category: Historical Fiction
Tags: Historical Fiction, Fantasy
From the author of the widely acclaimed She Weeps Each Time Youre Born comes a new novel, at once comic and moving. Set in the coastal town of Danvers, Massachusetts (which in 1692 was Salem Village, site of the origins of the Salem Witch Trials), it follows the Danvers High field hockey team as they discover that the dark impulses of their Salem forebears may be the key to a winning season., In this tour de female force, the 1989 Danvers Falcons are on an unaccountable winning streak. In chapters dense with 80s iconographyfrom Heathers to Big HairQuan Barry expertly weaves together the individual and collective journeys of this enchanted team as they storm their way to the state championship. Helmed by good-girl captain Abby Putnam (a descendant of the infamous Salem accuser Ann Putnam) and her co-captain Jen Fiorenza, whose bleached blond Claw sees and knows all, the DHS Falcons prove to be as wily and original as their North of Boston ancestors, flaunting societys stale notions of f
