Title: Time well spent
Product review: With a girls softball competition as the setting, Wolff probes into issues of racial prejudice, illegitimacy, and life in a small town. It is 1949 and Aki and her family have returned to town after spending several years in an Japanese internment camp. Also new in town is Shirley, "aka Shazam," whose father was killed during the war. The story of the annual baseball competition, Shazam's attack on Aki and all that surrounds it, is told through the mouths of each of the team members. It is fascinating, and readers are quickly pulled into the story. The grammar and vocabulary shift with the speaker which sometimes makes the reading difficult, but the effort is worth it.
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