Hot Girls with Balls, Benedict Nguyen
Hot Girls with Balls, Benedict Nguyen
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Hot Girls with Balls

Author: Benedict Nguyen

Narrator: Nicky Endres

Unabridged: 8 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2025

Categories: Fiction, Sports


Synopsis

In this outrageous and deeply serious satire, two star indoor volleyball players juggle unspoken jealousies in their off-court romance ahead of their rival teams’ first rematch in a year

Six is 6′7″, scheming to rejoin the starting lineup, and barely checks her phone. Green is 6′1″, always building her brand, and secretly jealous of her more famous girlfriend. Together, they’re going where no Asian American trans woman has gone before: the men’s pro indoor volleyball league. Our hot girls with balls just thought playing with the boys would spare them some controversy . . . haha.

In between their rival teams’ away games across the globe, Six and Green stay connected on SpaceTime and selflessly broadcast their romance to fans on their weekly Instagraph live show. After a long season, they’ll finally reunite for the championship tournament, the first to accommodate in-person fans since the COVIS pandemic struck the world a year ago. Just as they enter an airtight bro bubble of the world’s best, they’re faced with a crisis that demands an indisputably humiliating task: make a public statement online.

Can Green stock up enough clout for her post-ball future? Can Six girlboss her team’s seniority politics? Can they both take a time-out to just grieve? Their rabid fans and horny haters await their next move. We’re all just desperate for a whiff of the sweaty feminine energy that makes that ball thwack with such spectacular force.

About The Author

BENEDICT NGUYỄN is a dancer and gym buff. Between pistol squats and muscle-ups, she works as a creative producer in live performance. She’s written for The Baffler, BOMB, Los Angeles Review of Books, Vanity Fair, The Brooklyn Rail, The Margins, and other publications. In 2022, she published nasty notes, a redacted email zine on freelance labor. Hot Girls with Balls is her first novel.


Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on August 03, 2025

already found the best title of 2025 (thanks to the publisher for the e-arc)......more

Goodreads review by Olivia on November 21, 2024

Loved. Did for volleyball what Challengers did for tennis. Also really interesting insights on how impossible it is to do anything as a marginalized person in the public eye. Excited to see more from her !!......more

Goodreads review by Minh on January 08, 2025

Thank you to the author for the ARC. Nguyễn weaves together internet influencers, professional athletes, fans, and parasocial followers into one. At first, one might be skeptical of their parallels, but as the reader continues through Nguyễn's novel, the more similarities are drawn such as the vapid......more

Goodreads review by Paige on August 02, 2025

Killer title, killer cover, can’t wait......more

Goodreads review by Brenda Marie on August 12, 2025

What a plot! Complex with serious DRAMA. I loved the infusion of complex and just 2 people struggling to belong somewhere.......more