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A New York Times bestselling author takes a rollicking deep dive into the ultra-competitive world of youth hockey Rich Cohen, the New York Times –bestselling author of The Chicago Story of a Curse and The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football , turns his attention to matters closer to his son's elite Pee Wee hockey team and himself, a former player and a devoted hockey parent. In Pee Confessions of a Hockey Parent , Cohen takes us through a season of hard-fought competition in Fairfield County, Connecticut, an affluent suburb of New York City. Part memoir and part exploration of youth sports and the exploding popularity of American hockey, Pee Wees follows the ups and downs of the Ridgefield Bears, the twelve-year-old boys and girls on the team, and the parents watching, cheering, conniving, and cursing in the stands. It is a book about the love of the game, the love of parents for their children, and the triumphs and struggles of both.
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"Cohen's soulful, poignant examination is a winning testament to the ways parents often live for—and through—their children."
"What emerges for Cohen in this warmhearted memoir is a love for his son beyond hockey, as well as the acknowledgment that 'there is little to match the intoxication of seeing your child do something well.'"
"If the author's heartfelt, often brutally funny depiction of peewee hockey is accurate, then soccer moms and baseball dads have nothing on the frighteningly obsessive mania of hockey parents ..."
"A fascinating look at hockey culture that also offers insight into the competitiveness of youth sports."
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