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HOME ICE
Confessions of a reluctant hockey mom
HOME ICE: Reflections of a Reluctant Hockey Mom by Angie Abdou chronicles and illuminates a full season in the life of a hockey parent, offering a nuanced and unflinching self-portrait of a mother dedicated to supporting her son's passion for amateur hockey but struggling with ambivalence over our society's often troubling sport culture and its impact on her family, in a class with Anne Lamott's Operating Instructions: A Journal of my Son's First Year .
HOME ICE chronicles a season in the life of a hockey parent and child. The book offers an intimate account of Abdou's concerns about hockey culture as she parents her sensitive, artistic Atom boy and navigates his (inconvenient) passion for hockey and explores her own childhood experiences of sport, which include stories of abusive coaches in her community of Moose Jaw. The book lets readers into her life as she struggles with the strain hockey puts on her family, marriage, and finances, and emphasizes the role of sport and play as children begin to venture out beyond the safe, controlled confines of the home.
The memoir runs from mid-August 2016 until late March 2017. It chronicles Abdou's and her son Ollie's journeys to small-town rinks in Alberta and British Columbia and Montana, while Ollie's dad and sister happily stay home and ski. The book ends with the season's final game and Ollie's decision of whether or not he will play again next year. In her response to that decision, she reaches conclusions about how to best parent a hockey player, bringing to bear all the insights accumulated in the course of the narrative.
Angie Abdou has published four books, including three novels: The Bone Cage (a CBC Canada Reads finalist in 2011), The Canterbury Trail (a Banff Mountain Book finalist in 2011) and Between (2014, Arsenal Press). The latter has been reviewed favourably in The Globe and Mail, National Post, Winnipeg Review, Quill and Quire and Vancouver Sun. In the United States, New York's Library Journal listed Between as a Top 13 Indie Pick for Spring 2015. For The Bone Cage, Angie won the 2012 MacEwan Book of the Year, and in doing so joined a prestigious group of authors, including Margaret Atwood and Yann Martel. Between was named a Best of 2014" book by PRISM Magazine, 49th Shelf, and the Vancouver Sun. Angie is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Athabasca University. Her nonfiction has appeared in various magazines and newspapers, including National Post and Elle Magazine. Her new novel IN CASE I GO launched with Arsenal Pulp Press Fall 2017.
The memoir runs from mid-August 2016 until late March 2017. It chronicles Abdou's and her son Ollie's journeys to small-town rinks in Alberta and British Columbia and Montana, while Ollie's dad and sister happily stay home and ski. The book ends with the season's final game and Ollie's decision of whether or not he will play again next year. In her response to that decision, she reaches conclusions about how to best parent a hockey player, bringing to bear all the insights accumulated in the course of the narrative.
Angie Abdou has published four books, including three novels: The Bone Cage (a CBC Canada Reads finalist in 2011), The Canterbury Trail (a Banff Mountain Book finalist in 2011) and Between (2014, Arsenal Press). The latter has been reviewed favourably in The Globe and Mail, National Post, Winnipeg Review, Quill and Quire and Vancouver Sun. In the United States, New York's Library Journal listed Between as a Top 13 Indie Pick for Spring 2015. For The Bone Cage, Angie won the 2012 MacEwan Book of the Year, and in doing so joined a prestigious group of authors, including Margaret Atwood and Yann Martel. Between was named a Best of 2014" book by PRISM Magazine, 49th Shelf, and the Vancouver Sun. Angie is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Athabasca University. Her nonfiction has appeared in various magazines and newspapers, including National Post and Elle Magazine. Her new novel IN CASE I GO launched with Arsenal Pulp Press Fall 2017.
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