So this book is a really, really delightful read- I knew I loved it within the first few pages, which is pretty rare for me, as it usually takes me a hot second to warm up to a book. But a book about baseball, the Midwest, and a small liberal arts college--that's three of my favorite things!

That being said, there are definitely parts of this book that made me pretty deeply uncomfortable, not necessarily with what was done itself but the way that these things were left sort of basically unquestioned, and I do think that in a lot of ways it's very much a piece of Literary Fiction that could definitely turn off a lot of readers, and upon reflection makes me sort of uncomfortable.

But I do think it's an incredibly tightly-woven novel that does an incredible job of juggling all the characters and their Issues, and at the end of the day was still this sort of soft love story that I really appreciated reading. If you like baseball especially, I think you'll like this book!