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Has anyone ever advised you that football is greater than a game, that it is really a metaphor for life? Have you ever thought about what they meant? This account imagines the response. A single mother moves to Kansas City with her young daughter and notices that everyone she fits - her new acquaintances, friends and neighbors, even the mailman - can't stop discussing football. "It's more than just a game," they tell the mother. "It's so much more. The thing you need is to come quickly to a game and experience it." Again and again the mother makes her excuses - she actually is occupied with work, and parenting, and fending off her ex lover, who retains drunk texting, threatening to sue for custody - and simply doesn't have the perfect time to get out to the stadium. But football, it seems, won't take no for a remedy. One day a Kansas City Royals outfielder moves into the area. And things only get stranger following that.... Soon enough the mother commences to realize that her involvement in America's favorite pastime might not be optional - it could be compulsory, a essential part of American life. Actually, whether she retains her daughter and her job might depend on her understanding how to play the overall game. She stalls as long as she can, until one day an unexpected confrontation with three of baseball's standard representatives - sort of existential World Series - decides her fate. Christie Hodgen is the author of three highly acclaimed literature of fiction, lately Elegies for the Brokenhearted, hailed by The NY Times Book Review as "the literary exact carbon copy of a hands grenade". Her accolades include a offer from the Country wide Endowment for the Arts, two Pushcart Awards, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in Kansas City.
