At the University of Connecticut in 1975 it wasn't all that cool to be a cheerleader...
There was no homecoming ball or homecoming queen. Student didn't care about those things anymore. Or at least they pretended not to because all the old traditions and trappings of college social life were wiped out in the previous decade of turmoil.
Students were left with a blank slate to create new social traditions.
Susie was enjoying her life at Smith College, a small elite school, until her father lost his job.
Then everything changed. She was forced to transfer to the big state university, UConn, and start over.
Disoriented, confused about her future and friendless on the new huge campus, Susie is swept up by an old friend from junior high. Liz is captain of the cheerleading squad and determined to romance her old friend, the enigmatic star running back of the football team, Bryan Granger.
When Susie makes the impulsive decision to join Liz on the cheering squad, she never imagines how profoundly it would affect her life.
There are so many decisions to make in college and far too many choices.
Suzie never predicted that the hardest choice would be to pick between her best friend Liz who appreciates who she is no matter what, and a Bryan, a boy she admires and craves to be worthy of.
Is it wrong for a girl to fall for her best friend's crush? According to Suzie's conscience, the answer is… complicated.
The Cheerleader is a stand-alone novel about coming of age in college in the 70's, about friendship and romance and making difficult choices.
(Warning: Language for a mature audience, low heat sexual content.)
Genre: General Fiction
There was no homecoming ball or homecoming queen. Student didn't care about those things anymore. Or at least they pretended not to because all the old traditions and trappings of college social life were wiped out in the previous decade of turmoil.
Students were left with a blank slate to create new social traditions.
Susie was enjoying her life at Smith College, a small elite school, until her father lost his job.
Then everything changed. She was forced to transfer to the big state university, UConn, and start over.
Disoriented, confused about her future and friendless on the new huge campus, Susie is swept up by an old friend from junior high. Liz is captain of the cheerleading squad and determined to romance her old friend, the enigmatic star running back of the football team, Bryan Granger.
When Susie makes the impulsive decision to join Liz on the cheering squad, she never imagines how profoundly it would affect her life.
There are so many decisions to make in college and far too many choices.
Suzie never predicted that the hardest choice would be to pick between her best friend Liz who appreciates who she is no matter what, and a Bryan, a boy she admires and craves to be worthy of.
Is it wrong for a girl to fall for her best friend's crush? According to Suzie's conscience, the answer is… complicated.
The Cheerleader is a stand-alone novel about coming of age in college in the 70's, about friendship and romance and making difficult choices.
(Warning: Language for a mature audience, low heat sexual content.)
Genre: General Fiction
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