The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach

Henry Skrimshander loves baseball. He plays shortstop and has an uncanny ability to visualize just how the ball will bounce and where it will land. Henry gets noticed by Mike Schwartz, captain of the baseball team at Wisconsin's Westish College, a team with a long history of losing. Schwartz convinces the college president, Guert, to bring Henry to Westish, where he ends up rooming with gay scholarship student Owen. And so begins the beautifully written Art of Fielding.

The novel describes the ever evolving relationships between Henry, Mike, Owen, Guert, and Guert's daughter, Pella. It's a coming of age story, a sports story, a love story. And you don't have to be a baseball fan to enjoy it.

The book is over 500 pages long and I just flew through it. I can't wait to see what author Chad Harbach comes up with next.