Mick Cochrane

Eighth-grader Molly's ability to throw a knuckleball earns her a spot on the baseball team, which not only helps her feel connected to her recently deceased father, who loved baseball, it helps in other aspects of her life, as well.

The Girl Who Threw Butterflies

Sometimes Fitz would look at himself in the mirror, an expression of pathetic eagerness on his face. He was a dog in the pound, wanting to be adopted. He'd smile. What father wouldn't want this boy? Fifteen-year-old Fitzgerald—Fitz, to his friends—has just learned that his father, whom he's never met, who supports him but is not a part of his life, is living nearby. Fitz begins to follow him, watch him, study him, and on an otherwise ordinary May morning, he executes a plan to force his father, at gunpoint, to be with him. Over the course of one spring day, Fitz and his father become real to one another. Fitz learns about his father, why he's chosen to remain distant and what really happened between him and Fitz's mother. And his father learns what sort of boy his son has grown up to become.

Fitz

A novel of turmoil and reconciliation in the tradition of "Ordinary People". When the police come to arrest Minneapolis salesman Hal Lamm for molesting his 13-year-old granddaughter, his family is compelled to face its secrets and unhealed wounds.

Flesh Wounds

The arrest of a Minneapolis salesman for sexually abusing his teenaged granddaughter sends shock waves through his family, from his youngest son--a lawyer whose first instinct is to defend his father--to his eldest daughter, who leaves home. A first novel.

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