Nathan Leslie’s latest novel, Van Boyle, traces the descent and ascent of a professional baseball player. Van is living rough, struggling and ill. Beginning here, at age 69. the novel proceeds backwards through the years of his life.
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On Monday a large stone crashes through the window. It is wrapped in an abusive letter. Eva doesn’t know what to do.
Yai is praying. She does that every evening around this time. Yai doesn’t speak English.
There is a you who still follows the tracks through India, photographing engines with names like Locomotive Sentinel and Last Star.