A Team of Their Own
Seth Berkman tells the story of the women's ice hockey team that represented a unified Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, made up of players from both South Korea and North Korea. Thrown together with little time and enormous political pressure, the young women had to learn to trust and play with teammates they had been raised to see as enemies. Berkman traces the backgrounds of individual players, including Korean American athletes who joined the squad, and the coaches who tried to forge a team across a heavily guarded border. The hockey is almost beside the point; the heart of the book is the human connection that formed under impossible circumstances. It is a moving look at sport as common ground, and at the players who carried the weight of a divided peninsula.
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The true story of the unified Korean women's hockey team that brought players from North and South together for the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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A Team of Their Own was written by Seth Berkman, published in 2019 by Hanover Square Press.
A Team of Their Own is 352 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, A Team of Their Own takes most readers 5 to 8 hours to finish.
A Team of Their Own is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.