My rating: 5 of 5 stars
"You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it."
----Roger Federer
J.R. Thornton, An internationally ranked junior tennis player, pens his debut novel, Beautiful Country that narrates the story of a young boy in a new country-Beijing, all by himself, to get trained under best and strict tennis coach so that he could be ready for the international championships. But when friendship comes before Tennis, he needs to make a terrible choice to protect either the people or the things he love.




