The Cactus League: A Novel

"You don’t absolutely have to love baseball to enjoy this, but it’s a bonus if you do. However, any fan of character-driven fiction will find much to appreciate in this smart, crisply written novel-in-stories of a baseball team during spring training in Arizona. But Emily Nemens isn’t interested in just the players: In nine chapters (one for each inning, of course), she vividly portrays a diverse group of people associated with the Lions, including players, concession stand workers, owners, coaches, agents and hangers-on (think Annie Savoy in Bull Durham) and even the team’s organist."