Book 30: Summer of the Big Bachi. Picked this up because I like Hirahara's other books and there's one in this series that involves a Japanese baseball player who plays for a California team. This is the first in that series. Mas Arai is a Japanese American Hiroshima survivor who, no surprise, has seen some shit. He's settled into a quietish life as a gardener in Altadena with a set of friends and clients. It's a quiet life but trouble finds him and he needs to sort it out.