I was finally able to set down and read the new offering by one of America's Greatest Writer [John Grisham], "Calico Joe". The Baseball related storyline of this new book is a story that all people can relate to and enjoy. It contains comprehensive [although fictional] Baseball Game details, as well as Disfunctional Family plot-lines that cause the reader to tear up and think about people they know in reality. I also caught a few good belly-laughs in this book. It's a great story and it's told in a way that keep the reader interested, by traveling back and forth in the protagonist's mind to the point where things went wrong, and the point where he was trying to 'right' them.
I'd recommend this book for all sorts of readers. Baseball fans, as well as people who barely watch the sport. It can be read by teenagers, and pre-teens, as well as mothers, fathers, grand-parents, and grand-children. All sorts of people will enjoy this well-written story with a mixed ending. This book is for everyone who ever wanted to right a wrong, for everyone who ever 'had a catch' with their father, for everyone who ever 'missed a catch' with their father, and all those in-between. The book is fairly short. It took me about 25 hours to complete reading from start to finish, among my other 'things to do' in that time.
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