Having failed to make it as a baseball pro, Cooper heads back to his home town, to the empty house of his deceased parents, dreading the life that awaits him. Except that he finds that the house isn’t empty – there’s a very alien presence in there, and through it he begins to get some perspective on what we has lost, hasn’t lost, and what he might get back again.

A nice realistic tone to the issues faced by the protagonist, and his reaction to them.