Major Ponds: Traveling Chautauqua

-Alfredo Botello, the screenwriter for Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift and author of 180 Days and Spin Cycle

"At the intersection of the Holocaust, baseball, and jazz lies the novel 'Major Ponds Travelling Chautauqua." It is a brilliant and heart-wrenching meditation on the power of forgiveness.

Goldberg's story of an unlikely friendship between two men haunted by the ghosts of their past, by suffocating guilt, is moving and touching without ever veering into the maudlin. Goldberg does not fli...