Debut Highlight: The Snap by Elizabeth Staple
Today on the Rambling Realm, I’d love to highlight an incredible novel by debut author Elizabeth Staple. The Snap is the tale of a football professional who reckons with the choices that made her career in the boys’ club world of sports possible in a riveting and sharp Friday Night Lights meets I Know What You Did Last Summer debut.
Pitch
A football professional must confront her own choices after the murder of her coach
About the Author
Intrigued? Well, why not read the full plot description?
Description
Poppy Benjamin, Media Relations Director of Syracuse's storied NFL team, the Bobcats, fought tooth and nail for her career. Ever since her intern season fifteen years ago, it's been nothing but early mornings, late nights, barely dodged inappropriate advances, and relationships lost with boyfriends who didn't get it. That's why Poppy relies on the Women Against Groping Shitheads (WAGS), a support network that knows her far better than her own family. In-house counsel for an NBA team, a celebrated reporter—all the WAGS are high-ranking women in sports who need a release from the indignities and frustrations that come with navigating the ultimate boys’ club.
But on the same morning that Poppy’s legendary head coach is found dead in his home, five notes ordering members to "tell the truth or pay the consequences" hit the WAGS like 300-pound linebackers. Who's aware of the little group they've tried to keep under wraps, and what reason would they have to threaten it? As long-buried secrets are brought to light, Poppy is forced to revisit a dangerous mistake from the start of her career that puts everything she's built at risk.
Staple wrote The Snap to start a convo we aren't having about how complicated Me Too situations can really be
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Sexual assault
What else should you know?
Release Date for The Snap is August 13, 2024. Don’t forget to add the book to your Want-To-Read! You can get your copy now by following this link. You can also keep up with Elizabeth Staple’s future work and latest updates by visiting her website or following her on Twitter, Threads, Instagram, and Goodreads.
