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female athlete
female basketball player
fiction
first love
gay rights
grief
gulf war
high school
high school athlete
high school sports
homosexuality
loss
love
marriage
religion
religious fundamentalism
romance
single mother
social issues
speed skiing
stroke
teenage daughter
troubled marriage
varsity basketball
victory
womens fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9780520213425
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 1998
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Spanning the 100-day Persian Gulf War and a small California town's girls' basketball season, Home and Away is the story of Hedy Gallagher Castle, a woman who has reached a crossroads in her life. A straddler by nature, Hedy finds herself doing a balancing act on all fronts as her daughter approaches womanhood, her father enters a no-man's-land of bewilderment after a stroke, and her husband departs in search of the lost athletic glory of his youth. At the same time, the divisive political issues of the greater world--the Gulf War, abortion, gay rights, and fundamentalism--encroach on Hedy's increasingly fragile private one. As the tensions mount, Hedy learns to take a side--her own side--for the first time in her life, reawakening to a sense of love and loss.
Joanne Meschery is the author of A Gentleman's Guide to the Frontier (1991), In a High Place (1981) and Truckee: A History (1978).
