ActivAmerica
By Meagan Cass
2017
First Published
4.58
Average Rating
192
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Drawing from fairy tales, ghost stories, and science-fiction, the stories in ActivAmerica explore how we confront (and exert) power and re-imagine ourselves through sports and athletic activities. A group of girls starts an illicit hockey league in a conservative suburb. A recently separated woman must run a mile a day in order to maintain her new corporate health insurance. Children impacted by environmental disaster create a “mutant soccer team.” Two sisters are visited by an Olympic gymnast who demands increasingly dangerous moves from them. Sports allow the characters to form communities on soccer fields and hidden lakes, in overgrown backyards and across Ping-Pong tables. Throughout the collection, however, athletic risk also comes with unexpected, often unsettling results.
Avg Rating
4.58
Number of Ratings
19
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Author
Meagan Cass
Author · 2 books
Meagan Cass is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois Springfield and serves as an assistant editor at Sundress Publications.
