365 Days of Books

Summerland by Michael Chabon blends the magic and wonder of baseball with tall tales and fairy tales. In Summerland the branches of realities are melded together and the process and glory of baseball help keep the worlds together but trickster coyote is trying to separate the universes and bring an end to the mythical worlds. Good people, strange people, and not quite good and not quite people join in the battle that asks us to care for each other and feel the rythym of the game.

That sounds rich and deep but it is a surprising light story and in some ways unsatisfying in its predictability.