Otis Otterbach, born the day the atom bomb destroys Hiroshima, is mentored by his grandma, a poet and painter who teaches him to believe in the implausible, and his father who coaches him in baseball so well, he becomes a big-league pitching prospect. But wicked conflicts visit in the person of Cynthia Jones, mother of Casey, Otis's best friend and catcher.

Experience a road trip to the little league world series, read about a little girl lost in New Orleans, a boy tormented by sex and other facts of life, and the MLB draft, and.mysterious mission that takes Otis and Casey coast to coast and turns their lives upside down.