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We Ride Upon Sticks

par Quan Barry

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:"We Ride Upon Sticks . . . is for the kind of adults who watch Stranger Things and still have, somewhere, an athletic award inscribed on a paper plate." ??NPR

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
NPR ? TIME ? BOOK RIOT ? LITHUB ? KIRKUS REVIEWS

Acclaimed novelist Quan Barry delivers a tour de female force in this delightful novel. Set in the coastal town of Danvers, Massachusetts, where the accusations began that led to the 1692 witch trials, We Ride Upon Sticks follows the 1989 Danvers High School Falcons field hockey team, who will do anything to make it to the state finals??even if it means tapping into some devilishly dark powers. In chapters dense with 1980s iconography??from Heathers to "big hair"??Barry expertly weaves together the individual and collective progress of this enchanted team as they storm their way through an unforgettable season.
 
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 Falcons prove to be wily, original, and bold, flaunting society's stale notions of femininity in order to find their glorious true selves through the crucible of team sport and,
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I have a history of disappointment with comic novels, in that I never much like them or find them all that comic, but I enjoyed this book immensely. It is truly funny! Or it matches up with my sense of humor better than those other novels. Maybe it also helps having been a teenager in 1989/1990, myself. Whatever. The writing is smart and witty and for such a large cast of characters, each one comes through as an individual remarkably well. Jen Fiorenza’s Claw and Mel Boucher’s Splotch are also characters who in Their own right will live long in my memory.

Nominally about a high school varsity field hockey team’s turnaround from chumps to champs, with a side of teenage dabbling in witchcraft and the Salem witch trials, it is really about a group of teenage girls coming into their own in the late eighties. Each girl (and one teenage boy) has her own unique family dynamics and expectations cocooning her, and if writing her name in a book of darkness (fronted by Emilio Estevez) and occasionally dancing naked in the woods together helps her to find and live her true self, what’s the harm. It all makes for a touching, humane, and very comic novel. ( )
  lelandleslie | Feb 24, 2024 |
Strange but fun book.

I graduated high school in 1988 and this takes place in 1989 so all of the cultural references speak directly to me in a super funny way. I’m not sure that would be true for people who aren’t my same age.

Magic, friendship, coming of age.





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  hmonkeyreads | Jan 25, 2024 |
Funny, deep, dense, and a powerful time travel to 1989. ( )
  mslibrarynerd | Jan 13, 2024 |
So good -- this is a pure 5-star rating, all net. I cannot wait for her next book! It's lovely to find a new favorite author. If you like funny pop culture-infused historical novels about American teenagers in the late 20th century, put this on your list right now. ( )
  HeatherMoss | Jul 1, 2023 |
A super fun read. ( )
  c.archer | Jun 22, 2023 |
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I desire to be humbled before God for that sad and humbling providence…that I, then being in my childhood, should, by such a providence of God, be made an instrument for the accusing.

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Sean, Heidi, Kira, and Derek;

and for our coaches, Mom and Dad,

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Fiction. Literature. HTML:"We Ride Upon Sticks . . . is for the kind of adults who watch Stranger Things and still have, somewhere, an athletic award inscribed on a paper plate." ??NPR

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:
NPR ? TIME ? BOOK RIOT ? LITHUB ? KIRKUS REVIEWS

Acclaimed novelist Quan Barry delivers a tour de female force in this delightful novel. Set in the coastal town of Danvers, Massachusetts, where the accusations began that led to the 1692 witch trials, We Ride Upon Sticks follows the 1989 Danvers High School Falcons field hockey team, who will do anything to make it to the state finals??even if it means tapping into some devilishly dark powers. In chapters dense with 1980s iconography??from Heathers to "big hair"??Barry expertly weaves together the individual and collective progress of this enchanted team as they storm their way through an unforgettable season.
 
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 Falcons prove to be wily, original, and bold, flaunting society's stale notions of femininity in order to find their glorious true selves through the crucible of team sport and,

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