But as they head from upstate New York toward North Carolina, driving a beat up and technically stolen car and picking up a stray dog along the way, they find themselves learning more and more about each other. When her next door neighbor Peter Finnegan who has a quiet affinity for maps and a desperate wish to escape their small town ends up coming along for the ride, Emma thinks they can’t possibly have anything in common. Suddenly it seems important to visit his grave, to set off in search of her missing half. But when she finds a birth certificate for a twin brother she never knew she had, along with a death certificate dated just two days later, she feels like a part of her has been justified in never feeling quite whole. She’s grown used to being the only ordinary one among her rather extraordinary parents and siblings. But Nick carries with him a secret that makes Ryan wonder if anyone can ever really escape their past, or believe in the promise of those reassuring words: ‘Wait till next year.’ Is it too much for Ryan to hope that this year, this season, might be her comeback season?Įmma Healy has never fit in with the rest of her family.
Good luck is often hard to come by at a place like Wrigley Field, but it’s on this day that she meets Nick, the new kid from her school, who seems to love the Cubs nearly as much as she does. Ryan is once again filled with hope as she makes her way to the game. And on this the fifth anniversary of his death it feels like there’s nowhere else in the world she should be. Because she’s finally returning to the place that her father loved, where the two of them spent so many afternoons cheering on their team. She’s not worried about her lack of friends, or her suffering math grade, or how it’s been five whole years since the last time she was really and truly happy. But for once, Ryan isn’t thinking about what she should be doing. She should be in class, enduring yet another miserable day of her first year of high school.
The last place Ryan Walsh should be this afternoon is on a train heading to Wrigley Field.
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