基本信息出版社：Hyperion
页码：384 页
出版日期：2004年08月
ISBN：0786867426
International Standard Book Number：0786867426
条形码：9780786867424
EAN：9780786867424
装帧：精装
正文语种：英语

内容简介 andy Golden is in trouble. Her mother has died. And she's quit her team after being falsely accused of having sex with her Detroit high school basketball coach. Her aunts are hurting too: Grandaunt Gloria's husband had a fatal stroke nine months ago, and Aunt Elizabeth and her husband have just divorced. Still, Glo and Elizabeth travel to Candy from their homes in Chicago and LA to set the girl straight and get her back on the basketball court. Glo plans the weeklong road trip to Northern Michigan-her idea is to save Candy with a combination of tough love and religious dogma. Elizabeth trails along at Glo's command. But Glo, Elizabeth, and Candy end up not at the Cross in the Woods shrine as Glo intended but in the economically depressed, fictional Northern Michigan town of Lovely, where they encounter a host of characters who cause them to rethink their commitment to each other. What emerges in this unlikely place is a ferocious game of emotional basketball, which ultimately leads these three women to face each other and the choices they've made.
作者简介 Ellen Slezak's short fiction has been published in numerous literary journals including The Sun and the American Literary Review. She has been a finalist in the Iowa Short Fiction Awards and has twice been awarded fiction-writing grants from the Illinois Arts Council. A native of Detroit, she currently lives in Los Angeles.
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly

In this rather glum first novel, Slezak (Last Year's Jesus) tells the story of three women recovering from personal crisis at various stages in their lives. There's Candy Golden, the sophomore captain of the high school basketball team, orphaned after the sudden death of her mother, a recovering alcoholic. She's living with a friend's family, wondering what to do with her athletic talent and her future and feeling sullen and angry. Her grandaunt, the devoutly Catholic Gloria "Glo" Dreslinski, has lost her husband and is evaluating her marriage and her paltry romantic past. And finally, there is Candy's depressed aunt, Elizabeth Brannigan, recently divorced for the third time and unable to move on. Neither Elizabeth nor Glo want responsibility for Candy, but when Candy quits the basketball team and rumors start flying about her relationship with her coach, they move into action. And thus begins a path to redemption, as the women head on a pilgrimage to a northern Michigan shrine, the Cross in the Woods. The pace is slow and the resolution—a healing game of basketball in Lovely, Mich.—feels too tidy. There are bright moments here, and Slezak is a fine chronicler of angst, but because many of the characters' actions are based on hearsay, misunderstandings and gossip, the truths gained in the final chapters feel like a somewhat hollow victory.
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