the one and only thing that truly makes life worth living. Emily Giffin’s latest focuses on a forbidden love of sorts, but in a new setting: a fictional small college town in Texas.Marie Claire Each and every page of this story is entertaining. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY POPSUGAREmily Giffin. 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. Emily Giffins long-awaited seventh novel is FINALLY here. 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 mostand is forced to confront her deepest desires, fears, and secrets. Book enhanced with curriculum aligned questions and. The One and Only is a story told from the perspective of Shea Rigsby, a thirty-three-year-old sports reporter born and raised in the small college town of Walker, Texas. 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.īut when an unexpected tragedy strikes the tight-knit Walker community, Sheas comfortable world is upended, and she begins to wonder if the life shes chosen is really enough for her. Read The One & Only: A Novel by Giffin, Emily, lexile & reading level:, (ISBN: 9780345546890).

Raised alongside her best friend, Lucy, the daughter of Walkers legendary head coach, Clive Carr, Shea was too devoted to her hometown team to leave. Thirty-three-year-old Shea Rigsby has spent her entire life in Walker, Texasa small college town that lives and dies by football, a passion she unabashedly shares.

The One & Only by Emily Giffin