As a primer for anyone wishing to follow the trial, this book is valuable, even if Ms Goldman seems addicted to a strange (and often hilarious) purple prose.
"Hope doesn't get involved in the celebrations very often, " Wambach explained afterward, her right eye still showing some purple from the shiner she took in a game Saturday.
The meal is often finished with a traditional sweet - such as a sticky rice cake in the shape of a purple blossom, with paper-thin slices of pear shaped like leaves.