“In Hannah Gersen’s elegant first novel, Home Field, she delicately renders a portrait of a grieving family torn apart by suicide. With a quiet narrative hand she delves into the murky aftermath, where a widowed father falters, and his children must seek out answers with near tragic results. Gersen’s writing walks a lyrical tightrope that is both frightening and redemptive. She understands that as parents, no matter the depth of our love, we are obstructed by our own limitations, sometimes with heartbreaking consequences. In Home Field, Gersen uncovers the unflinching truths in families that wound and somehow, miraculously, save us.” - Robin Antalek, author of The Grown Ups and The Summer We Fell Apart
“[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 as Home Field breathlessly plunges the reader into tragedy. A tender, touching, unforgettable read, it reminds us just how quickly our lives can change and how family-no matter how we define it-is the net that helps us land. 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
“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
“With elegant, precise prose and a profound understanding of family, love, and loss, Home Field accurately depicts the complicated human heart: flawed but still capable of compassion and forgiveness. 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
“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