Jenner had once talked in jest about going to Denmark and coming back to his four young children as Aunt Heather. It was obviously a bizarre thought, indicative of his terrible confusion. It also could be seen as a precursor to the fractured relationship that would occur when he essentially ...
The basic architecture of the novel was the same as when I’d read it three years earlier: A skinny young shortstop named Henry arrives at Westish College to play baseball. The team’s catcher, a hairy, burly football player named Mike Schwartz, takes him under his wing. Henry’s ...