Famepunk 1987 US Open Author:Liz Mackie Run away. Be Great. Get the best Education. FAMEPUNK is a novel that takes place in a fictional version of women?s professional tennis history. The story opens with US Open 1987. When an unknown qualifier from Brooklyn topples a tournament favorite in a second round night match, veteran sports writer Ellen Nagoya finds herself on the dangerous ... more »trail of the year?s biggest?and most mysterious?story in sports. Meanwhile, as brash, big-tipping, yellow-eyed teenager Emma Jasohn makes her more and more outrageous way to a title showdown with the great Freya, who knows everything, they?re joined on the world stage by an international cast of characters?including: Amanda McKinley?whose two-fisted backhand made her America?s sweetheart, but whose back has done her wrong; Ilya Kasimov?talent recruit; Maria Helm?whose daughter the Wimbledon champion is turning out to be a disappointment; Shanaya Greene?the Ice House Princess of Coney Island whose tennis scholarship at Stanford University is on the line; And Z?whose daughter Theodosia is going to set the tennis world on fire?next year, when she turns twelve.« less