Home Field: A Novel
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The heart of Friday Night Lights meets the emotional resonance and nostalgia of My So-Called Life in this moving debut novel about tradition, family, love, and football.
As the high school football coach in his small, rural Maryland town, Dean is a hero who reorganized the athletic program and brought the state championship to the community. When he married Nicole, the beloved town sweetheart, he seemed to have it all—until his troubled wife committed suicide. Now, everything Dean thought he knew is thrown off kilter as Nicole’s death forces him to re-evaluate all of his relationships, including those with his team and his three children.
Dean’s eleven-year old son, Robbie, is withdrawing at home and running away from school. Bry, who is only eight, is struggling to understand his mother’s untimely death and his place in the family. Eighteen-year-old Stephanie, a freshman at Swarthmore, is torn between her new identity as a rebellious and sophisticated college student, her responsibility towards her brothers, and reeling from missing her mother. As Dean struggles to continue to lead his team to victory in light of his overwhelming personal loss, he must fix his fractured family—and himself. When a new family emergency arises, Dean discovers that he’ll never view the world in the same way again.
Transporting readers to the heart of small town America, Home Field is an unforgettable, poignant story about the pull of the past and the power of forgiveness.
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Hannah Gersen. (2016). Home Field: A Novel. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Hannah Gersen. 2016. Home Field: A Novel. HarperCollins.
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Hannah Gersen was born in Maine and grew up in western Maryland. She is a staff writer for The Millions, and her writing has been published in the New York Times, Granta, and The Southern Review, among others. Home Field is her first novel. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
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The heart of Friday Night Lights meets the emotional resonance and nostalgia of My So-Called Life in this moving debut novel about tradition, family, love, and football.
As the high school football coach in his small, rural Maryland town, Dean is a hero who reorganized the athletic program and brought the state championship to the community. When he married Nicole, the beloved town sweetheart, he seemed to have it all—until his troubled wife committed suicide. Now, everything Dean thought he knew is thrown off kilter as Nicole’s death forces him to re-evaluate all of his relationships, including those with his team and his three children.
Dean’s eleven-year old son, Robbie, is withdrawing at home and running away from school. Bry, who is only eight, is struggling to understand his mother’s untimely death and his place in the family. Eighteen-year-old Stephanie, a freshman at Swarthmore, is torn between her new identity as a rebellious and sophisticated college student, her responsibility towards her brothers, and reeling from missing her mother. As Dean struggles to continue to lead his team to victory in light of his overwhelming personal loss, he must fix his fractured family—and himself. When a new family emergency arises, Dean discovers that he’ll never view the world in the same way again.
Transporting readers to the heart of small town America, Home Field is an unforgettable, poignant story about the pull of the past and the power of forgiveness.
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"This is a deeply felt novel that both moved and entertained me, and I didn't want to stop reading it. An auspicious debut by a talented and wise writer." — Edan Lepucki, author of New York Times bestseller California
"Gersen's characters are so full, so gently flawed, and so deeply human that it's nearly impossible to resist falling into their world, with all its sorrow and all its subtle joy. A moving all-American family saga; fiction's answer to Friday Night Lights." — Kirkus Reviews
"[An] elegant first novel...Gersen's writing walks a lyrical tightrope...[and] uncovers the unflinching truths in families that wound us and somehow, miraculously, save us." — Robin Antalek, author of The Grown Ups and The Summer We Fell Apart
"This is Friday Night Lights on the mid-Atlantic but one degree deeper...A tender, touching, unfogettable read...You won't put this book down until everyone in Home Field has made it safely home." — Jessica Anya Blau, author of The Trouble with Lexie
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After his wife's suicide, a small-town high school football coach and his family navigate grief and forgiveness in Gersen's emotionally nuanced debut. In his corner of rural Maryland, Dean Renner is a local hero, a big fish in a small pond: he's the high school football coach in a town where high school football makes you an icon. Father of three. Married to Willowboro's hometown sweetheart, the beautiful, tragic Nicole. But when Nicole commits suicide--a shock to pretty much everyone outside of the immediate family (she was, Dean notes, "so easy to project happiness onto")--Dean and his three kids are left to rebuild their lives while making sense of earth-shattering loss. At 8, Bryan, the youngest and the kindest, is becoming increasingly immersed in his Aunt Joelle's fundamentalist church, much to Dean's (mostly) unspoken dismay. Eleven-year-old Robbie, sensitive and sullen, has started sneaking out of school for illicit lunchtime walkabouts. And Stephanie--technically Dean's stepdaughter--is supposed to be immersed in her new life as a freshman at Swarthmore, but her anger and grief keep pulling her back toward home. Meanwhile, Dean, struggling to keep his family functioning and afloat, finds himself face to face with his past and--slowly, painfully, sometimes joyfully--coming to terms with a future that's nothing like the once he'd planned. A book that simmers rather than burns, its quiet power comes from its meticulous attention to the details of grief. That meticulousness sometimes verges on plodding--occasionally, the book does seem to drag--and it's possible to wish the story felt just a touch less familiar. Still, Gersen's characters are so full, so gently flawed, and so deeply human that it's nearly impossible to resist falling into their world, with all its sorrow and all its subtle joy. A moving all-American family saga; fiction's answer to Friday Night Lights.COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Acclaimed as a winning high-school football coach, Dean suddenly confronts the ultimate defeat when his wife, Nicole, commits suicide. In this debut novel, Gersen chronicles the transformation of a bereaved husband and his three children, compelled individually and collectively to grapple with the questions Nicole's death raises about their family's pastand future. Readers share Dean's deep anxieties as he seeks the emotional strength to reassure his troubled childrena son finding comfort in furtively trying on his mother's clothing, another son unexpectedly going missing, and a daughter venturing into sex and drugs. In that search, Dean sheds his identity in football and reinvents himself as a girls' cross-country coach, even as he weighs his guilt-laced attraction to Laura, a young woman who had attracted his eye before Nicole's death. Too many tangled threads here for a tidy denouement, but readers will recognize in Dean's final poise something of the wisdom gained through forgiveness. A memorable dive into the turbid depths beneath the deceptive simplicity of sports' Ws and Ls.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)
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After his wife's suicide, a small-town high school football coach has his hands full with confused eight-year-old Bry; 11-year-old Robbie, who's acting out; and Stephanie, trying to be a cool college student while feeling responsible for her family. From a staff writer for the literary blog The Millions; a 75,000-copy first printing.
Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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