For three middle-aged women in the suburbs of Cleveland, the issues seemed compelling but relatively conventional: sending a child off to college, dealing with a marriage gone stale, feeling invisible.
But changes were coming .
and not the predictable ones.
Because Margie, Katherine, and Abra are feeling a new kind of power inside of them - literally.
Of all the things they thought they might have to contend with as they got older, not one of them considered they'd be exploding a few gender roles by becoming superheroes.
At once a delightful and surprising adventure and a thoughtful examination of a woman's changing role through life's passages, THE SUPER LADIES is larger-than-life fiction at its very best.
PRAISE FOR SUSAN PETRONE'S THROW LIKE A WOMAN: While, on the surface, this is a novel about a woman battling to make her way in the man's world of professional baseball, debut author Petrone presents a stirring and humorous story of a woman doing considerably more than that--trying to rediscover herself, provide for her family, and perhaps find a little love along the way.
- Booklist Throw Like a Woman is that rare baseball novel, both a paean to the game and a deeper exploration of character.
Susan Petrone has a fan's heart and a scout's eye.
Read it now.
Don't wait for the movie.
- Stewart O'Nan, co-author of Faithful and A Face in the Crowd For baseball fans who yearn for a female Jackie Robinson, reading Susan Petrone's fun and absorbing novel Throw Like a Woman becomes a kind of prayer.
'Please, Lord Give talent a chance.
Let this dream come true ' - Mary Doria Russell, author of The Sparrow Someday there will be a woman who plays Major League Baseball.
And when it happens, I suspect it will be an awful lot like Susan Petrone's fun Throw Like a Woman.
Susan knows baseball and so the novel - and her hero Brenda Haversham - crackles with authenticity.
You can hear the pop of the ball hitting the catcher's mitt.
- Joe Posnanski, author of The Soul o.
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| Woman | While on the surface this is a novel about a woman battling to make her way in the mans world of professional baseball debut author |
