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A feminist sex-positive and hilarious rom-com about a girl in 1970s Chicago trying everything she can to score—on and off the soccer field.Its 1979—the age of roller skates and feathered bangs of Charlies Angels and Saturday Night Fever—and Susan Klintock is a junior in high school with a lot of sexual fantasies…but not a lot of sexual experience. No boy at least nonA feminist sex-positive and hilarious rom-com about a girl in 1970s Chicago trying everything she can to score—on and off the soccer field.Its 1979—the age of roller skates and feathered bangs of Charlies Angels and Saturday Night Fever—and Susan Klintock is a junior in high school with a lot of sexual fantasies…but not a lot of sexual experience. No boy at least none she knows has ever been worth taking a shot on.That is until Bobby McMann arrives.Bobby is foxy hes charming—and hes also the coach of the brand-new girls soccer team at school and totally 100 percent completely off limits. But Susan decides shes going to try out for the team to get close to him anyway. And over the course of an eventful season she discovers that what she wants might not be what she first expected when Bobby McMann walked in the door—and that figuring out who she is means taking risks both on and off the pitch.Author Iva-Marie Palmer returns with a fresh funny feminist coming-of-age novel about learning to take a shot at the things that truly matter.(less)