Boy on Ice
By John Branch (Mktg’89; MJour’96)
(W. W. Norton & Company, 384 pages; 2014)
The tragic death of hockey star Derek Boogaard at twenty-eight was front-page news across the country in 2011 and helped shatter the silence about violence and concussions in professional sports. Now, in a gripping work of narrative nonfiction, acclaimed reporter John Branch tells the shocking story of Boogaard’s life and heartbreaking death.
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