“A minor-league ball player tries to find peace and the pastoral life as a schoolteacher, but gets a rude awakening when confronted by meth heads, kids with serious bullying issues, and industrial pork farms. After starting an affair with the mother of one of his students, he winds up in a world of trouble he never could have imagined. Holdefer, author of the superb psycho-drama The Contractor (2007), about an interrogator at a top-secret prison, turns here to something very different, writing with casual humor and a real feel for expressing emotion that make the novel thoroughly readable and the characters immediately sympathetic. Holdefer gives us reason to rethink what a simple life looks like.”
Booklist
“Holdefer’s satisfying, at times funny novel describes a maturing pro athlete’ s often bumpy transition from youthful dreams to mainstream American life.”
Publishers Weekly
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