Gimme Everything You Got
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
“One part Judy Blume, one part Amy Schumer, Gimme Everything You Got is incredibly warm, bracingly frank, and laugh-out-loud hilarious. I didn't want the game to end.” —Katie Cotugno, New York Times bestselling author of 99 Days
It's 1979—the age of roller skates and feathered bangs,
Charlie’s Angels and Saturday Night Fever—and Susan Klintock is a junior in
high school with a lot of sexual fantasies . . . but not a lot of sexual experience.
No boy—at least not any she knows—has been worth taking a shot on.
That is, until Bobby McMann arrives.
Bobby is foxy, he’s charming . . . and he’s also the coach
of the brand-new girls’ soccer team. Sure, he’s totally, 100 percent,
completely off limits. Sure, Susan doesn’t stand a chance. But that doesn’t
mean she can’t try out for the team to get closer to him, and Susan Klintock
has always liked a challenge.
Between the endless drills and grueling practices, Susan
discovers something else: She might actually love soccer. But being a part of
the first girls’ team at school means dealing with other challenges.
As
friendships shifts, she finds her real passions might lie in places she didn’t
expect when the season began—and that discovering who she is will mean taking risks,
both on and off the pitch.
Love. Lust. Soccer. Acclaimed author Iva-Marie Palmer returns with a fresh, funny, feminist coming-of-age comedy about learning to take your shot on the things that truly matter.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Title IX, "that legal thing where they have to have sports teams for girls," hasn't much impacted Chicago's Powell Park High or Susan Klintock, 16, who's more focused on sexual fantasies than sports. That changes in the fall of 1979 when hot Bobby McMann is hired to start up a girls' soccer team. Infatuated, Susan joins the team; wanting to impress Coach McMann on the field, she begins extra training with new acquaintance Joe, a former goalie from another school, who is nothing like the obnoxious jocks she knows. Practicing with Joe, Susan develops a passion for the game and for him, but her obsession with her coach may ruin her chance to develop a real relationship. Palmer's (The Summers) feminist novel offers readers a look at an earlier time in a genuine, humorous voice that feels thoroughly modern. Two strong, contrasting women prove influential to Susan: her mother, working hard to better her life after divorce, and her soon-to-be stepmother, who is unexpectedly supportive. Susan's awakening to new possibilities (i.e., winning an athletic scholarship) is gradual, making for a fulfilling read as she becomes more grounded and focused. Ages 14 up.
