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OLDER FICTION
Kester, Eric

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295 pp. | Farrar | August, 2019 | Trade ISBN 978-0-374-30762-2 $17.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-374-30760-8
(2) YA Sophomore Wyatt Parker plays football, but only to forge a closer relationship with his older brother Brett, Grayport High's star quarterback. Their father is an alcoholic who lives vicariously through Brett and ignores Wyatt. With red tide threatening the fishing industry--the bedrock of their Massachusetts town's economy--football gives people some hope. In Kester's debut novel, the characters, the town, and the culture of high-school football are richly developed, with keen insight and pithy prose.
Reviewer: Dean Schneider | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2019

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