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Broken field, Jeff Hull

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fiction

Broken field

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Jeff Hull

In the high prairies of Montana, life is dusty and hard, and men are judged by their labour. Women have to be tougher yet. That's what sixteen-year-old Josie Frehse learns as she struggles to meet the expectations of her community while fumbling with her own desires. Tom Warner coaches the Dumont Wolfpack, an eight-man football team, and is stumbling through life, numbed by the death of his own young son and the dissolution of his marriage. But he's jolted into taking sides when his star players are accused of a hazing incident that happened right under his nose. The scandal divides and ignites the town, threatening a championship season. This is a town where the roots of bullying reach deep, secrets are buried and, in a school obsessed with winning, everyone loses

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