An inspiring tale of friendship, teenage love and baseball from an acclaimed, shortlisted author. As Layton O'Her embarks on his dream of making the high school baseball team, he realizes insurmountable obstacles stand in his path: his mother's terminal illness, bouts of homelessness, and the fact that the girl he falls in love with is dating the starting left fielder As misfortune and conspiracies gather against him, Layton lashes out until he is forced to confront his own reactionary behavior. Is he a baseball player, or a fistfighter? Along the way Layton finds friendship, love, the art of hitting and eventually himself. CHIN MUSIC RHUBARB is a young adult, coming-of-age novel that confronts issues such as toxic masculinity, racism, homophobia and classism through an 1980s lens.
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