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Title details for The Snap by Elizabeth Staple - Available

The Snap

A Novel

by Elizabeth Staple
Frankie Corzo
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Dangerous secrets. A toxic workplace. And an unsolved murder. . . . A football professional reckons with the choices that made her career in the boys' club world of sports possible in this riveting and sharp Friday Night Lights meets I Know What You Did Last Summer debut
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, a support network that knows her far better than her own family. In-house counsel for an NBA team, a celebrated reporter—all of the W.A.G.S. 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 very same morning that Poppy’s legendary head coach is found dead in his home, five notes threatening tell the truth or pay the consequences hit the W.A.G.S. like 300-pound linemen. Who's aware of the little group they've tried their best 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.
An unmissable novel about responsibility, regret, clouded moral compasses, and the ins and outs of professional football.

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  • Release date

    August 13, 2024

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780593869338
      • File size: 282968 KB
      • Duration: 09:49:30

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 10, 2024
      In Staple’s nimble first book, a PR director for a professional football team reckons with her role as enabler of toxic behavior after the head coach is found dead. Poppy Benjamin has spent the past 15 years with the Syracuse Bobcats, burnishing their image and occasionally preventing players’ indiscretions
      from making headlines. After coach Red Guillory dies in his home, the police open an investigation. Then, Poppy and four fellow female sports executives who jokingly call themselves WAGS (Women against Groping in Sports) discover they’ve each recently received the same anonymous note, warning that they have five days to fess up to some unspecified misdeed. As Poppy learns more about how Red died, she confronts decisions she and the other WAGS made on their way to the top that may have put other women in danger of being sexually abused. Some of the police procedural elements feel thin, but Staple’s love of football and unflinching look at its dark side are both colorful and credible. It’s a worthy addition to the fiction inspired by #MeToo. Agent: Andrea Somberg, Harvey Klinger.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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