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Publisher Description
“This is a powerful story of grief, love, forgiveness, and holy mystery, and I loved it. Billy Coffey is a master storyteller.” —Lauren Denton, USA Today bestselling author of The Hideaway
Owen Cross grew up with two loves: one a game, the other a girl. One of his loves ruined him. Now he’s counting on the other to save him.
Owen Cross’s father is a hard man, proud in his brokenness, who wants nothing more than for Owen to succeed where he failed. With his innate talents and his father’s firm hand guiding him, Owen goes to college with dreams of the major leagues—and an emptiness full of a girl named Micky Dullahan.
Owen loved Micky from the first time they met on the hill between their two worlds: his middle-class home and her troubled Shantytown. Years later he leaves her for the dugouts and the autographs, but their days together follow him. When he finally returns home, he discovers that even peace comes at a cost. And that the hardest things to say are to the ones we love the most.
From bestselling author Billy Coffey comes a haunting story of small-town love, blinding ambition, and the risk of giving it all for one last chance.
“In one evening, a single baseball game, Coffey invites us into a lifetime. With lyrical prose and aching description we join Owen Cross on a journey of love, loss, faith, the unexpected—and America’s favorite pastime.” —Katherine Reay, author of Dear Mr. Knightley and The Austen Escape
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Coffey (Some Small Magic) pens another nostalgic, lyrical tale blending faith elements with the supernatural. After years playing minor league baseball, Owen Cross has the opportunity to play for the Baltimore Orioles for one night as a backup catcher in 2001. As he sits in the dugout during the game, he reflects on all that brought him to this moment. At age 12 he meets Mickey Dullahan, a girl from the poor section of Camden, W.Va., after his dad moves the family there to take a job as a janitor. The two see each other daily on the secluded hill where they first met, keeping their relationship secret all through high school. When Owen's talent on the field leads to a scholarship, he plans to save Mickey by taking her away with him to college. But after the two share a mystical experience as they stare into the lights of a train, their lives begin to diverge. Owen's reverie follows no chronological order, instead following thematic lines as Owen's mind jumps around and touches on various moments from his past, as when his father declared him a baseball catcher at birth, determined to have his son achieve the baseball dreams he himself was denied. Coffey entrances readers with this quiet tale of love, loss, and deciding what matters most in life.
