I hate crying on airplanes but I will do it for the YA sports book about the goalkeeper who thinks she holds the team on her shoulders (it's possible I relate--my goalie jersey when I first started literally said "protect this house"). Evelyn has had her life mapped out since she was twelve: win a high school national championship, get recruited to Duke (*insert obligatory GO TAR HEELS here*), go pro, marry her high school sweetheart aka the quarterback. And when it's going well, that dream life she promised her mom seems just within reach. But when that perfect checklist crashes and burns around her, Evelyn has to figure out how to pick up the pieces-- and what pieces she even wants to keep. 

This book tries to tackle a lot of things, from queer theory to gender equality in sports to academic explorations and a little bit of high school romance on the side, but what really shines in Rosewater's writing is Evelyn's internal struggle to recognize the roadblocks that her astronomical expectations have placed in her way of finding joy again, in her life, family, friends, and in field hockey. The panicky, gut-wrenching pain she struggles through in silence, thinking she has to bear it alone (maybe it is a goalie thing??), and learning how to come out the other side of that--and that YES you can come out the other side--is an important experience to share.