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In Andra Douglas's Changing Cadence, Christine Davis built the New York Sharks women’s football team after discovering that few opportunities existed for women who wanted to play tackle football at a serious level. Nearly twenty years later, she prepares for the final season under her ownership while dividing her time between New York City and Zephyr Hills, Florida, where her mother, Dorothy, now lives in an assisted living facility. As the Sharks fight through a demanding season filled with longtime rivalries and difficult road games, residents at Dorothy’s facility become devoted supporters who follow every result from hundreds of miles away. Christine soon realizes that the closing season of the Sharks is unfolding beside the final years of the people and places that shaped her long before football entered her life.
Andra Douglas knows people carry whole lifetimes in ordinary conversations, so Changing Cadence leans into the relationships between the residents of The Commons and her football team. Douglas clearly understands how folks build community, and I love that Dorothy follows the games from her assisted living, while Ol’ Man Mars flirts through Facetime calls with players who slowly begin treating Table 5 like family. Christine spends the season asking herself what remains once the thing that shaped adulthood finally reaches its last chapter. That question is connected to actual people instead of speeches. Douglas also has a real ear for humor because Tammy screaming Bible verses during football meetings lands with the same natural rhythm as stories traded across porch swings in small-town Florida. Well written and wonderfully thoughtful and immersive, this is bound to be the book of the year for literary fiction lovers with a heart for women's professional sports.
