Chin Music Rhubarb

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 that there are insurmountable obstacles in his path. He fights with his peers who hate his passion for baseball, his coach uses him for his own means and the girl he falls in love with is dating the starting left fielder. As misfortune and conspiracies gather against him, Layton is forced to confront his own 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, sexism, white privilege and classism through an 80s lens.