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The Way We Swing Back

by Logan Lane

A future beyond the game

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A future beyond the game

Baseball has been Easton Chase’s route toward college and a life unlike the one his family has known. When an arm injury ends that path, he is left facing upheaval at home and the expectations he has absorbed about masculinity and emotional restraint. The Quinn household offers a sense of belonging, but his unresolved feelings for Tanner complicate that refuge as Tanner begins moving on. Alcohol becomes part of Easton’s struggle to manage what he is carrying. The story brings together lost athletic hopes, family instability, sexuality, and the difficult work of deciding what kind of future—and self—can take shape after a defining plan falls away.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in LGBTQ+ young adult fiction
  • Readers drawn to stories about baseball, family disruption, and changing life plans
  • Readers interested in fiction exploring masculinity, emotional restraint, and alcohol use

Themes

LGBTQ+ identity and relationshipsBaseball and lost ambitionsFamily instability and belongingMasculinity and emotional expressionAlcohol use

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Book overview

Easton Chase can't keep taking swings.

 

Baseball was his way out, the ticket to college and a life no Chase before him had ever lived. But after he fights for a state title, his arm gives out for good.

 

At home, everything's broken. His mom is gone. His dad's in jail. He's stuck with grandparents who barely know what year it is.

 

The hardest part isn't what he's lost. It's what he's been taught to be. A voice in his head that sounds a lot like his father's decides what he's allowed to feel and want. Strength means silence. Emotions are hidden.

 

The only place that feels like home is the Quinn house. But that's changing. Tanner Quinn is the one person Easton never got over. He's still around, close enough to see, close enough to hurt. But he's moving on, and Easton isn't part of where he's going.

 

Alcohol quiets it, for a few hours. But the deeper Easton sinks, the harder it gets to hold on to anything: baseball, the Quinns, or himself.

 

If he can't silence that voice and decide who he really is, he won't just lose his future.

 

He'll lose himself.

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