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Average rating4.4
Certainly didn't have “tearing up over a hockey novel” in my plans for today, but here we are.
Bachman writes regular people beautifully - we all know these people, they might be our relative, and they absolutely inhabit his novels. This is a book about sports but only barely - it's actually a book about what happens when the right thing isn't the popular thing; when the right thing has a cost; when knowing the right thing and doing the right thing are two very different choices. It's a book about choices and consequences, and all those two things entail. Powerful and hard to forget.