Novels about female athletes are rare. “The Falconer”, from danaczapnik, a veteran sports journalist, is a corrective
is not holding a basketball, Lucy Adler is gangly, self-conscious and invisible; she is a “pizza bagel” with few friends. But on the court she is a “Warrior Goddess of Mannahatta”, schooling geezers who mistake her for an easy mark. Lucy knows she must play it cool at first, as men get angry when a girl makes them look bad. But when she assumes her full powers, she is triumphant. She loves the sound of a ball going through a hoop:.
For all her vulnerability, Lucy has the shrewdness of a native New Yorker who attends an elite private school, plays pick-up games on city courts and smokes pot on rooftops. This is the still-gritty early 1990s, and she roams the streets with the curiosity of a photographer. Lucy wants to know how to avoid the traps of convention—“Is there anything more tragic than being boring?”—but is dismissive of advice, particularly from well-meaning adults.
Lucy’s precocity is occasionally implausible. Few teenagers—even terribly clever ones—are ever likely to compare a September night to “the burnt edge of a saxophone solo” in a Tennessee Williams play. The insightful dialogue often sounds like wishful thinking. But these are forgivable flaws. “The Falconer” is a winning tale about the often-painful alchemy of adolescence, which transforms the misadventures of youth into something like wisdom.
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