Chuckanut Dreams

by Martin Brown

Overview

Jack McKenna is a hockey prodigy in Canada's fabled Juniors. Expected to follow the normal path of hockey stardom, Jack eschews a sure NHL-bound path to be the first one in his family to graduate from university. Born to a Western Canadian family that prides itself on passion of purpose and patriotism, Jack enrolls at McGill University and falls in love with a daughter of an affluent Quebec family whose moral compass is questionable. While he leaves the game as a player, he still holds on to the virtues he embraced in the game: dedication, commitment, belief in purpose, and holding on to a dream. Graduating from McGill, Jack takes his strength of purpose, along with his new love, to a new country, in pursuit of a new dream.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781535611855
Publisher:	Martin Brown
Publication date:	02/27/2018
Pages:	244
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.51(d)

About the Author

Martin Brown is an English teacher and high school track coach on Long Island, NY. A former "Salesman of the Year" for a major sporting corporation, Brown has been named "Coach of the Year" fourteen times in the past two decades. He was named "Newsday's Track Coach of the Year" in 2012 and 2013. His article "While Athletes May Dream, Their Hard World is Hardly for a Child" was published in the New York Times. He is happily married and the father of seven.

Table of Contents

Raised with Purpose...............................................................1

Transformation.......................................................................9

Bennett................................................................................29

Acquired Notions.................................................................33

Brave New World.................................................................49

Happy Times........................................................................59

Rocking More Than the Obvious.........................................75

Searching..............................................................................79

Bloom off the Rose...............................................................83

Words Worth Their Weight..................................................91

Truth Delayed......................................................................95

Embarrassment.....................................................................97

Diversion...........................................................................107

Whirlwind.........................................................................111

Loving the Dream Chaser...................................................115

Thunderstorms...................................................................121

Suffering.............................................................................125

Aftermath...........................................................................133

Deafening Sounds..............................................................139

Movement..........................................................................145

Clueless..............................................................................149

Foreclosure.........................................................................153

Shattered Glass...................................................................159

Explosion...........................................................................163

The Inevitable....................................................................167

Deceit................................................................................171

Double Standard................................................................179

Driveway Depression..........................................................183

Nadir.................................................................................189

Twists.................................................................................193

Pragmatics..........................................................................223

Epilogue.............................................................................231