Synopses & Reviews
The Scarlets are hard-hitting, tough-talking hockey players. Theres brash Toad, troubled Hal, and Hooters waitress Heezer. And then theres Iz.
Iz has a long, fraught relationship with her sport. Her dad was a hockey star, and her grandfather made a rink for her as soon as she could stand. But when she leaves her grandmother behind to play for the university team, she cant quite find her own place in the game.
From the rowdy hilarity of the Scarlets dressing room to a quiet reticence toward first loveand with a little beer-bonging and a lot of hockey along the wayIz tries to navigate the ways loss is played out on the ice.
Both fast-paced and hesitant, Twenty Miles celebrates womens hockey and offers an uncompromising look at the ways in which the sport haunts the women who play it.
Synopsis
Fiction. From the rowdy hilarity of the Scarlets' locker room to quiet, lyrical contemplations - and with a little beer-bonging and a lot of hockey along the way - Iz tries to navigate the ways loss plays out on the ice. Both fast-paced and hesitant, Twenty Miles celebrates women's hockey and offers an uncompromising look at the ways in which the sport haunts the women who play it.
Synopsis
Isabel Norris has never left the ice. Her father was a hockey legend who died before she was born, and her grandparents have raised her in his skates.
When Iz leaves her grandmother behind to play for the Winnipeg University Scarlets, she struggles to fit in on this team of hard-hitting, tough-talking women with a penchant for buffets, beer bongs and raunchy humour and a fierce loyalty to one another and to their sport. But in their raucous midst, Iz can't quite find her own place in the game.
As she moves between the rowdy hilarity of the Scarlets' dressing room and quiet, lyrical contemplations, Iz tries to navigate the ways loss plays out on the ice. Based largely on author Cara Hedley's three seasons on the University of Manitoba Bison, Twenty Miles celebrates women's hockey and offers an uncompromising look at the ways in which the sport both haunts and redeems the women who play it.
About the Author
Cara Hedley has lived in England and western Canada and calls Winnipeg and Lake of the Woods home. After playing three seasons with the University of Manitoba Bison womens hockey team, she moved to Calgary, where she completed an MA in English literature and creative writing. Hedley has been a member of the dANDelion magazine editorial collective, performed as part of a collaborative poetic ensemble in Calgary, Toronto, and Scotland, and has worked on various film crews in Vancouver.