Danny, the
main character in , is the offspring
of a white mother and a Mexican father. Danny attends a
private school near
San Diego anddue to his slightly darker skin colordoes not feel like he fits
in with any of the students there. Danny's father is not in his life, and Danny is
haunted by
his absence.
One summer, Danny spends some time
with his father's family in
National City. He hopes to form some sort of
connection with them, but because he cannot speak
Spanish, he feels he does
not fit in there either. Danny loves baseball and is an
extraordinarily
talented baseball pitcher, but whenever he has to pitch in front of others,
he
is terror-stricken and the pitches go haywire:
Nothing
hypes him up more than when people are
watching him. Especially white people.
One of the central themes of the book is Danny's inability to feel
at home in the world, especially when he's attending his private school near
San
Diego:
Nobody paid him any
attention anyway because he
was...
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