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Blind Your Ponies
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Overview
Blind Your Ponies is a 2001 novel by Stanley Gordon West. West is a novelist best known for writing novels set in Montana, where he lived until his death in 2015. Blind Your Ponies follows Sam Pickett, a high school basketball coach, who works through his past trauma in the small town of Willow Creek, Montana. Sam coaches Willow Creek’s underdog basketball team to success, using his own life experience to encourage the team to believe in themselves against all odds. This novel explores trauma, grief, and the power of community.
This study guide refers to the 2011 Algonquin Books Libby e-book edition.
Content Warning: This study guide describes and discusses the source text’s treatment of mass shootings, sexual assault, domestic abuse, alcohol addiction, and ableism.
Plot Summary
Sam Pickett prepares for a new school year teaching English in Willow Creek, Montana. Sam thinks about his guilt over how a mass shooter murdered his wife Amy in a Burger King six years before. The principal comes into Sam’s classroom and tells him that he wants to give Sam a break from coaching the basketball team this year. The Broncs basketball team has lost the last 93 games in a row.
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