The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
224 Pages
Nine-year-old Trisha McFarland steps off a hiking trail to pee, and within minutes, she's lost in the vast, unrelenting wilderness of the Maine woods. Armed with nothing but her wits, a bit of food, and a Walkman tuned to Red Sox broadcasts, she fights to survive dehydration, hunger, insects, and something else. Something watching her. Something waiting.
As days blur together, Trisha clings to the voice of her hero, relief pitcher Tom Gordon, for hope. But hope can only take her so far...and the forest may have plans of its own.
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is a psychological survival story wrapped in creeping dread. Itâs intimate, hallucinatory, and haunting; King at his most stripped down and terrifyingly real.