Four-Finger Singer and His Late Wife Kate: A Novel of Life Death & Baseball

In the tradition of W.P. Kinsellas Shoeless Joe (Field of Dreams) comes a darkly comic novel of life love death and baseball. The only son of overachieving parents Jake Singer goes from left-handed Little League legend to pro baseball prospect at Stanford. When a freak accident involving mob enforcers and a case of mistaken identity interrupts his budding career he retreats to law school (Im not sure whats worse: having your index finger forcibly amputated by a mob goon or spending three years at Harvard Law School). Years later in Cambridge he meets Kate lately arrived from Iowa a perky twenty-year-old waitress with a secret past. An unlikely romance blossoms into an unlikely marriage--one quickly plagued by a parade of blunders and revelations. Haunted by her missteps and in the throes of leaving her husband Kate suffers a catastrophic rendezvous with a runaway truck. While Jake finds solace in an improbable return to baseball Kate transcends her sudden tragic death resolving to redeem herself posthumously interceding in her widowers life in a well-intentioned but often hilarious campaign to ensure his success on the ball field and in the bedroom.