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Also by Emily Adrian:

The Second Season, August 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Everything Here Is under Control, August 2020
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The Second Season
Emily Adrian

Blackstone Publishing
August 2021
On Sale: July 27, 2021
ISBN: 1799932141
EAN: 9781799932147
Kindle: B08W2PY2H1
Hardcover / e-Book
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Contemporary | Fiction

Ruth Devon starred for Georgetown Basketball back in college - until she injured her knee, married her coach, and found a new career calling games on the radio. Twenty years later, Ruth and her now-ex-husband, Lester, are two of the most famous faces in sports media. When Lester decides to retire from the announcers’ booth, Ruth goes after his job. If she gets it, she will be the first woman to call NBA games on national television.

For now, Ruth is reporting from the sideline of the NBA finals, immersed in the high-pressure spectacle of the post-season. But in a deserted locker room at halftime, Ruth makes a discovery that shatters her vision of her future. Instantly, she is torn between the two things she has always wanted most: the game and motherhood.

With warmth and incisive observation, Adrian brings to life the obsessions, emotions, and drama of fandom. The Second Season asks why, how, and whom we watch, while offering a rich and complicated account of motherhood, marriage, and ambition. Adrian’s character study of Ruth Devon illuminates a beautiful basketball mind—and the struggle of a woman who claims authority in a male-dominated world.

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