A review by jhaeger
The Cactus League by Emily Nemens

When I initially picked The Cactus League up I was hoping for a lot of baseball, but understood it’s a novel that needs to carry emotional resonance (and you know, is universal enough that everyone can get something out of it). The problem is I wasn’t expecting Nemens to try to jam so much story into it. At a certain point it seemed like Nemens lost sight of what her intention was. The Cactus League is a collection of short stories--some fantastic and some that didn’t quite do it for me--and in the end, I just wasn’t sure what I was supposed to be seeing or feeling.