★★★☆☆ | Horror | Audio | Borrow | StoryGraph | Goodreads
Continuing my quest to read all of the books by Stephen King. I listened to this one to start and then finished it on Kindle. We follow the story of a lost nine-year-old through the forests of Maine and New Hampshire over the course of a week, using the innings of a baseball game as chapter markers. Trisha McFarland is a diehard Red Sox fan and closer Tom Gordon is her favorite player. You can tell King is going through a baseball phase as he uses this story to share is love for the game though this precocious little girl.
Trisha’s family is going through a divorce. Dad’s a good soul but drinks too much. Trisha is trying to make sense of it all and falls back on baseball metaphors to see her through.
It’s God’s nature to come on in the bottom of the ninth, Tom had told her.
Not a lot of supernatural weirdness here, just hallucinations of a little girl with a fever, hunger, etc.
An OK story.