Madeleine Blais
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In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle: A True Story of Hoop Dreams and One Very Special Team
Madeleine Blais
Begun as an article in the New York Times Magazine, In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle offers a close-up of the girls on a high school basketball team whose passion for the sport is rivaled only by their loyalty to one another. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Madeleine Blais’s book takes the reader through a season in the history of the Lady Hurricanes of Amherst, Massachusetts, from tryouts and practices during the regular season up through the final championship game. The result is a moving narrative that captures the complexities of girls’ experiences in high school, sports, and society. It is a compelling and touching literary exploration of one group of girls’ fight for success and respect… and a dramatization of the success of the women’s movement and a testimony to all the changes yet to come.
