We Ride Upon Sticks Summary
Quan Barry

We Ride Upon Sticks Overview

We Ride Upon Sticks is a suspenseful, comic, coming-of-age novel focusing on the members of a varsity high school field hockey team in Danvers, Massachusetts who experience impressive victories when they begin to perform rituals that are loosely linked to the historic Salem Witch Trials. The narration, which is written in a playful and irreverent style, follows the team members both individually and as a group. Barry’s novel explores themes of collective consciousness, personal responsibility, identity and free will.