The Art of Keeping Cool

A young girl in 1910s New England must learn to navigate a family and a community reeling from the death of her father, a doctor, while the town's men are drawn into the feverish excitement of a local baseball game. The novel blends coming-of-age with a gentle, elegiac tone about loss and growing up, set against the backdrop of the amateur baseball craze of early 20th-century New England.