Pee Wees: Confessions of a Hockey Parent [Paperback]

ANew York Timesbestselling author takes a rollicking, personal deep dive into the ultracompetitive world of youth hockey.

Rich Cohen, the author ofThe Chicago Cubs: Story of a CurseandMonsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football, turns his attention to matters closer to home: his sons elite Pee Wee hockey team and himself, a former player and a devoted hockey parent.

InPee Wees: Confessions of a Hockey Parent, Cohen takes us through a season of hard-fought competition in Fairfield County, Connecticut, an affluent suburb of New York City. Part memoir and part exploration of youth sports and the exploding popularity of American hockey,Pee Weesfollows the ups and downs of the Ridgefield Bears, the twelve-year-old boys and girls on the team, and the parents watching, cheering, plotting, praying, and cursing in the stands. It is a book about the love of the game, the love of parents for their children, and the triumphs and struggles of both.

Rich Cohenis theNew York Timesbestselling author ofTough Jews,Monsters,Sweet and Low,The Sun & the Moon & the Rolling Stones,The Chicago Cubs, andThe Last Pirate of New York, and, with Jerry Weintraub, the coauthor ofWhen I Stop Talking, Youll Know Im Dead. He is a cocreator of the HBO seriesVinyl, a contributing editor atRolling Stone, and a writer at large forAir Mail. He has written forThe New York Times,The New Yorker,The Atlantic, andHarpers Magazine, among other publications. Cohen has won the Great Lakes Book Award, the Chicago Public Librarys 21st Century Award, and the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award. He lives in Connecticut.

At its core,Pee Weesis a story about a father trying to reach his son (and perhaps his younger self) through the game. 'I was now my father. My son was now me.' A familiar tale and the makings of a great tl#%