The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Trisha McFarland has only veered off the trail to get away from the bickering of her brother and recently divorced mother. She doesn’t think there’s any chance of losing her way.

Except, in her panic to get back to the path, Trisha takes a turning that leads into the tangled undergrowth. deeper and deeper into the terrifying woods. At first it’s just the midges and mosquitoes, hanging around her ears like helicopters, trying to drink her blood and sip her sweat. Then the hunger. For solace she turns her Walkman into broadcasts of the Red Sox baseball games and the performances of her hero Tom Gordon. And when the reception begins to fade, Trisha imagines that Tom Gordon is with her.

As darkness begins to fall, Trisha begins to give up home of being found. Alive. And as she struggles for survival and a way out, she realizes that she’s not alone. There’s something else in the woods — watching. Waiting…

A classic story that engages our emotions at the most primal level, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon explores our deep dread of the unknown and the extent to which faith can conquer it. Aglow with a girl’s indomitable spirit, it is at once a powerful fairytale, an astounding allegory and a brilliant contemporary portrait of a girl and her sports hero.