Midtown Book Group at Barnes & Noble/Georgia Tech
sponsored by the Midtown Neighbor's Association
October Book Selection:
MUST WIN:
A SEASON OF SURVIVAL FOR A TOWN AND ITS TEAM
by Drew Jubera
LOCAL AUTHOR EVENT at Barnes & Noble/Georgia Tech
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Book Signing at 7:00 p.m.
Midtown Book Group Discussion w/Author at 8:00 p.m.
Drew Jubera is an award-winning journalist who has written for The New York Times, ESPN the Magazine, Texas Monthly, and many others. He covered the South as a national desk reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He lives with his family in Atlanta.
The Valdosta Wildcats - the winningest high school football team in America.
In Must Win, author Drew Jubera goes inside the country's most famous high school football team to chronicle a dramatic season, a quest by a program that's down but not out to regain past glory for both the team and the town it represents. This town, this school, and these people have been rocked by forces that have hit the entire country, but they're a long way from giving up. They still believe in the power of a game to overcome all.
With a new coach, a new optimism, and a kaleidoscopic cast that includes an aspiring rapper, a beekeeper's son, the best athlete in the state, and the heir to a pro legacy cut short by a crack dealer's bullet, these Wildcats have been given one more chance.
Must Win is a fascinating glimpse of modern-day, high stakes, high school football, told from the inside: Drew Jubera spent the 2010 season "embedded" as a journalist in Valdosta with the Wildcats to tell this gripping "Friday Night Lights" story, South Georgia-style.