Made to Break Your Heart

"Reminiscent of another fine Pennsylvania novel, John Updike’s The Centaur.”—J. Michael Lennon, author of Norman Mailer: A Double Life

Made to Break Your Heart is a family saga, set in a gossipy suburb, that explores the complexities of raising a child, holding a marriage together, and maintaining your sanity in the cutthroat world of Little League baseball.

It’s 2008, and Nick Marhoffer is a stressed-out dad who finds himself flirting with thoughts of infidelity. While his job is being threatened by a crumbling economy, he’s fraught with anxiety over his only son’s well-being. So when his son starts playing baseball, Nick becomes a rabid Little League dad who loses sight of what’s good in his life. After developing a crush on a gorgeous team mom, he can’t decide between her and his wife, then finds himself at risk of losing everything that’s most important to him.

This is a smart, sexy, and funny novel about bad breaks, bad decisions, and the long road of life.

RICHARD FELLINGER is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and a former journalist who has worked in Harrisburg and Philadelphia. His first book, a collection of short stories entitled They Hover Over Us, won the 2011 Serena McDonald Kennedy Award for literary fiction. Rick holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University and teaches writing at Elizabethtown College. Made To Break Your Heart is his debut novel.