Bleachers by John Grisham is a great airplane or travel book. I read it in about 12-hours, with a good 8-hour sleep in the middle of it.
Bleachers is unlike any other John Grisham novel that I have read. It is a story set in small town USA that is based almost entirely around American Football (or gridiron to those of us not in the USA or Canada).
Your main character in the book is Neely Crenshaw, who is returning to his home town of Messina to bury his high school football coach, Eddie Rake. Both Neely Crenshaw and Eddie Lake are home town icons. Eddie for how he ran the football team and Neely for being probably the best quarterback the town has ever produced.
Given the length of the book the character development is excellent and the story is a lot of fun to read.
I would highly recommend the book to anyone who likes American High School football, and definitely to people who have played it. You will more than likely recognize many of the characters in the book as typical characters that you would have gone to school with.
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