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Pucking Around
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Summary and Study Guide
Overview
Pucking Around is a 2023 romance by academic Emily Rath, a professor of international politics as well as a novelist. Pucking Around is a sports romance in the “why choose” subgenre of romance, leading the protagonist Rachel Price to a polyamorous relationship with multiple partners in the Jacksonville Rays hockey team. The self-published novel became popular after it was praised in the BookTok community of the social media platform TikTok.
This guide refers to the digital version of the book as published by Amazon. Pagination may vary.
Content Warning: Please note that this guide includes discussion of alcohol abuse, depression, anti-gay biases, and past attempted suicide. This guide also uses the term “queer” to describe a character’s sexuality, per his self-description.
Plot Summary
The novel opens when Rachel Price learns that she has been granted a prestigious fellowship to practice medicine for a professional hockey team, the Jacksonville Rays. The news is exciting to Rachel, who has been in a personal and professional slump for several months, ever since she was initially rejected for the fellowship. At that time, she met and had sex with a stranger in a hotel and Seattle, then left him behind. They never exchanged names or contact information, and Rachel has been thinking about her “Mystery Boy” ever since.
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