Bury Your Horses. Dan Dowhal

Protagonist is a disgraced hockey player who acknowledges and discusses the negative side of the professional hockey world and how it changed him, including the violence, drugs, and brain damage Novel also explores other themes, including drug cartels, rattlesnake farming, small-town living, and family Protagonist is a Canadian playing hockey in the States Author has two previous novels, and his writing has been compared to John Irving The title refers to a travelling game that the protagonist is introduced to by the family he’s staying with