(From the Publisher) Summerland is a magical place, where the local Little League gathers to play baseball on a perfectly manicured lawn, and the sun is always shining in a flawless blue sky. However, the small beings known as ferishers, who ensure this perfect weather, are threatened by an ancient enemy and need a hero—a baseball star, in fact—to vanquish their foe.

The ferishers recruit Ethan Feld, possibly the worst ballplayer in the history of the league, as their chosen leader. No one is more surprised than Ethan at their choice, but their faith spurs him on.

Accompanied by his determined friend Jennifer T. Rideout and a motley crew of creatures that includes everything from a sasquatch to a werefox, Ethan struggles to defeat giants, bat-winged goblins, and one of the toughest ball clubs in the realms of magic to save the Summerlands, and, ultimately, the world.

Michael Chabon, one of the most acclaimed storytellers of our time, creates a whole new universe richly drawn from American folklore, with legendary beings, monsters, and mythical creatures inhabiting a magical landscape where the powers of the past and the future, of good and evil, are locked in grand battle.

About the author
Michael Chabon was born in 1963, in Washington, D.C., and raised mostly in suburban Maryland. He studied at the University of Pittsburgh, earned his M.F.A. in Creative Writing at U.C. Irvine. Since 1997 he has been living with his wife, Ayelet Waldman, also a novelist, and their children, in Berkeley, California.

He has previously published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, and Wonder Boys, as well as two collections of short stories, A Model World and Other Stories,and Werewolves In Their Youth. Chabon has also written articles and essays, as well as some work for film and television.

His story "Son of the Wolfman" was chosen for the 1999 O. Henry collection and for a National Magazine Award. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay won the New York Society Library Prize for Fiction, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, the Commonwealth Club Gold Medal, and the Pulitzer Prize. Chabon also travels and lectures widely.

He is currently working on a new novel, Hatzeplatz, and a book of short stories, Tales of Mystery and Imagination.

Books by Michael Chabon
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Random House, 2000)
• Wonder Boys (Picador, 1996)
• The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (HarperCollins, 1989)