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"From the author of the widely acclaimed She Weeps Each Time You're Born--a new novel, at once comic and moving, set in 1989 Danvers, Massachusetts, where a high school field hockey team discovers that the witchcraft of their Salem forebears may be the key to a winning season. In this tour de female force, the Danvers High School Falcons Varsity is on an unaccountable streak. In chapters dense with '80s iconography--from Heathers to Big Hair--Quan...
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After enduring a week of punishing try-outs and making the cut for the girl's varsity field hockey team, new players must participate in a night of questionable bonding traditions and loyalty tests, orchestrated by the most senior girls on the squad and performed with the implicit permission of their seemingly all-American young male coach.
3) Hockey days
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Tom's dad discovers an old street hockey ball and knit cap he wore as a child, and relates the fun he had playing with his teammates--all of whom had odd nicknames--but remembers that most fun was had spending time with his father.