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Expect uproar in this excerpt from the novel Adrift in the Sound. The story takes place after the death of Greg, Marian’s boyfriend. The Dogs decide to honor Greg’s memory with a baseball game and challenge the Tuggers, a hard-swinging tugboat team from the docks. The Dogs are a ragtag tavern softball club, mostly drunks and potheads kicking around Seattle in the early 1970s. Lizette, Marian, and Sandy, the mother of baby Violet, live next door to the Dogs. They come along for the game and so do a couple of cops who’ve been tailing the

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