Nascimbene, Yan

The lives of two isolated children, a wealthy young boy from Paris and the poor daughter of Mexican migrant workers, intersect at a baseball game in California with lasting results.

Presents a collection of seventeen American short stories spanning more than a century and a half. Themes vary from gothic horror to frontier humor, small-town barbarism to inner city compassion, and the perils of the open sea to the affliction of everyday boredom.