Calico Joe

Got to read the book, "Calico Joe" by John Grisham recently. If one survives through the initial heavy baseball stuff (for a non-baseball person, that is) the book is good. It talks about the father - son relationship while taking us through the son's efforts for redemption. To know what father did for the son to try redeeming it, I leave it to the book.

A self-centered father who thinks nothing of beating up his family is shown through the son's eyes. John Grisham, in my opinion, has really taken to heavier and better topics from the days of "The Client". For all his legal expertise, his better works are "A Painted House", "Playing for Pizza" and the like. Yeah, and add this one. The one complaint is it could've been longer than it is.

Maybe he had to rush things for "The Racketeer". I am waiting for it.