One Goal

Description

In the tradition of Friday Night Lights and Outcasts United, One Goal tells the inspiring story of the soccer team in a town bristlingwith racial tension that united Somali refugees and multi-generationMainers in their quest for state — and ultimately national — glory.

When thousands of Somali refugees resettled in Lewiston, Maine, astruggling, overwhelmingly white town, longtime residents grew uneasy. Then the mayor wrote a letter asking Somalis to stop coming, whichbecame a national story. While scandal threatened to subsume the town, its high school’s soccer coach integrated Somali kids onto his team, andtheir passion began to heal old wounds. Taking readers behind thetumult of this controversial team — and onto the pitch where the teammates vied to become state champions and achieved a vital sense of understanding — OneGoal is a timely story about overcoming the prejudices that divide us.