Introduction [excerpt] Waiting for the Sun is the beginning eighty-eight pages of a novel that follows protagonists Greg Meller and Rose Wiseman as they attend Sarasota College in Sarasota, Florida. Greg, who plays baseball on full scholarship at Sarasota, is hoplessly far from his New Jersey home and popular high school persona. Throughout the novel's course, he must learn to cope with this newfound alienation and the reckoning of his own identity that ensues. Later on, these...