Basketball (Gemma Open Door) - Softcover

Bledsoe, Lucy Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936846233 ISBN 13: 9781936846238

Publisher: Gemma Open Door, 2012

Synopsis

BJ's mother is short.Mom is an abstract painter who runs an arty cafe. BJ, however, takes after her missing father. Just twenty-one, she's a college basketball player who lives and breathes the game. High tops and hoops occupy her every waking moment. When she accidentally discovers her dad, a shadowy presence throughout her whole life, she suspects her best friends may actually be closer than she thinks--are they her sisters? Maybe there is more family she's never met! BJ just wants to keep her mind on the game.

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Review:

On The Big Bang Symphony: "A well-balanced humdinger of a story keeps this unusual novel hurtling along like a skidoo on the ice." -- "Kirkus Reviews" On Sweat: "In an outstanding novella and...rich and satisfying stories, Bledsoe shows herself to be a smart and savvy writer.... In this tender work, she perfectly evokes the healing power of the outdoors." --"Publishers Weekly"

Lucy Jane Bledsoe can tell a story. This tale of family sings with humor, insight, and love. ?Susan Fox Rogers, My Reach and Another Wilderness

On The Big Bang Symphony:

"A well-balanced humdinger of a story keeps this unusual novel hurtling along like a skidoo on the ice." -- Kirkus ReviewsOn Sweat: "In an outstanding novella and...rich and satisfying stories, Bledsoe shows herself to be a smart and savvy writer.... In this tender work, she perfectly evokes the healing power of the outdoors." --Publishers Weekly"

"Lucy Jane Bledsoe can tell a story. This tale of family sings with humor, insight, and love."?Susan Fox Rogers, My Reach and Another Wilderness

On The Big Bang Symphony:

"A well-balanced humdinger of a story keeps this unusual novel hurtling along like a skidoo on the ice." -- Kirkus Reviews On Sweat: "In an outstanding novella and...rich and satisfying stories, Bledsoe shows herself to be a smart and savvy writer.... In this tender work, she perfectly evokes the healing power of the outdoors." --Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

Lucy Jane Bledsoe is the author of four novels, a collection of short fiction, a collection of narrative nonfiction, and six books for kids. She is the recipient of the 2009 Sherwood Anderson Prize for Fiction, the 2009 Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, as well as a California Arts Council Fellowship, a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, and an American Library Association Stonewall Award. Her stories have been published in dozens of journals, including Arts & Letters, Shenandoah, ZYZZYVA, Bloom, Hot Metal Bridge, Terrain, and Fictional International. Her novels have been translated into Japanese, Spanish, and German, and her stories into Dutch and Chinese.

About this edition

• Publisher: Gemma Open Door
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1936846233
• ISBN 13: 9781936846238
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100