On Baseball and Distraction: A Guest Post by Justin St. Germain

We see a lot of memoirs in the Discover reading room, but it’s only the truly great ones, like Wave and This Boy’s Life, The Liar’s Club, The Tender Bar, and Wild, with their electric prose, keen-eyed observations, and undercurrents of grief – sometimes elegiac, sometimes open and messy, often stultifying – that makes the hair stand up on the back of readers’ necks. The raw, relentless honesty and emotional resonance of those earlier Discover picks echo in Justin St. Germain’s  Son of a Gun.  He talks about baseball and grief in a guest post on the Discover blog.