Thirty-three-year-old Shea Rigsby has spent her entire life in Walker, Texas— a small college town that lives and dies by football, a passion she unabashedly shares. Raised alongside her best friend, Lucy, the daughter of Walker’s legendary head coach, Clive Carr, Shea was too devoted to her hometown team to leave. Instead she stayed in Walker for college, even taking a job in the university athletic department after graduation, where she has remained for more than a decade. But when an unexpected tragedy strikes the tight-knit Walker community, Shea’s comfortable world is upended, and she begins to wonder if the life she’s chosen is really enough for her. As she finally gives up her safety net to set out on an unexpected path, Shea discovers unsettling truths about the people and things she has always trusted most— and is forced to confront her deepest desires, fears, and secrets. Thoughtful, funny, and brilliantly observed, The One & Only is a luminous novel about finding your passion, following your heart, and, most of all, believing in something bigger than yourself... the one and only thing that truly makes life worth living.


三十三歲的謝伊．瑞斯比一輩子都沒離開過美國德州沃克郡。那裡是個大學城，曾因美式足球興起，卻也因它的熱潮消退而沒落。謝伊和大家一樣瘋迷當地的美式足球。她和好朋友露西從小一起長大，而露西的父親正是沃克美式足球的傳奇教頭克萊夫．卡爾。謝伊太愛她家鄉的美式足球隊了，所以不願離開這裡。她選擇在當地上大學，甚至在畢業後選擇到學校的體育室工作，在那裡已經待了十年多。然而，一件意外的悲劇影響了緊密團結的沃克社區，更打亂了謝伊原本安穩的生活，使她開始懷疑自己是不是真的滿足於現狀。當她終於決定要捨棄安逸生活，踏上意想不到的人生道路時，卻發現過去那些她始終深信不疑的人事物，背後藏著種種令人不安的事實，這迫使她必須正視自己內心最深處的渴望、恐懼與秘密。本書故事情節縝密、內容有趣且精采，是一本找尋自我的小說，探尋該如何找到自身熱情，追隨內心聲音，更重要的是，要相信你可以超越自己，因為那是唯一真正使生命值得活下去的力量。