Three Strikes

Three Strikes is the story of Marisol, a young Latina newcomer to a small community who struggles to find her niche as a volunteer softball coach and paid art teacher. During the three years of the story, she acquires a series of intangible successes that assuage the gradual destruction of a more tangible but elusive success. The ineluctable consequences of thinking like a woman, as one character accuses, force Marisol to adjust her goals and dreams. Though she sees herself as an insider, she is continuously pushed back by those who persist in viewing her as an outsider. Her unique coaching style vexes some of the community stalwartsthe real insiders. Navigating a world that seems to be filled with allies or enemies challenges Marisol to preserve her sense of self-worth within a community of people whose complexities resist such dichotomization.