It's a story you may think you know - an aging baseball coach is
challenged by the very boy he took in and raised. But in this near
future world, "smart" houses talk and listen, and - privy as they are to
the secret life of the household - family life gets interesting. Creepy
and funny, unsettling and entertaining, this is a story that stands on
its own even as it proves the perfect follow up to Gish Jen's critically
acclaimed novel The Resisters.