Summary Of Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip

The story of an unfortunate boy, his future of baseball impeded by pain and loyalty to a promise made with his best of friends; later on, forced to lay down his path upon injuring his arm. This is the story of Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip by Jordan Sonnenblick. Resulting of overthrowing the baseball, in benign competition with his best friend A.J., Peter Friedman severely injured his arm, to the point of being disabled to participate in any plays in baseball. Of this, his favorite and main activity drifting farther away as his eyes are set upon photography. He meanwhile detects small memory and behavior problems in his grandfather, who in return tells off his grandchild saying to worry not. His relationship with his best friends are changing, and not in a positive
A whole new person than he was before, he had to make certain adjustments to fit into the society and survive. He has become someone he would have never hung out with in the previous years, being a baseball star in his grade, along with A.J.. Destroying his previous identity, he had gone through hardships no one should experience in his age, for losing his identity and forced to create another an identity or path he would never have wanted before, is an excruciating experience for all of humanity. To lose himself, and not knowing what to do for even a brief moment, is a type of pain none would be able to understand fully. Although some parts do feel slightly sugar coated, since not everyone is able to find a new path for themselves so quickly, the readers can see how much arduousness he went through to create his identity. Most readers shall not be able to understand how much pain Peter has undergone, they will be able to understand his circumstances and what he had to go through. Furthermore, Peter had to deal with his grandfather’s Alzheimer's, a task that many will find arduous to handle, especially during the school