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A review by sistermagpie
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
4.0
I really have to hand it to this book. It really swings for the fences! It's about a field hockey team in 1989 so the 80s references come fast and furious--so much so that there were times where I found myself wondering when something felt a little off, then figured that Danvers, MA just wasn't on the exact same schedule as where I lived. (I'm a bit older than the players, though, so I'd have been in Massachusetts, at least, by then.)
The girls basically pledge themselves to the devil--played by Emilio Esteves--and start winning big, but they're also asking for help becoming who they are meant to be and they all do! I think the thing I liked best about it was how you really do get caught up in a feeling of magic infusing things that are wonderfully mundane. Also it's nice how unapologetic the narrator is about how hey, things were different in the 80s and sometimes that wasn't such a bad thing even when it was.
The girls basically pledge themselves to the devil--played by Emilio Esteves--and start winning big, but they're also asking for help becoming who they are meant to be and they all do! I think the thing I liked best about it was how you really do get caught up in a feeling of magic infusing things that are wonderfully mundane. Also it's nice how unapologetic the narrator is about how hey, things were different in the 80s and sometimes that wasn't such a bad thing even when it was.