Barnes & Noble There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

Longlisted For The National Book Award #1 National Bestseller A powerful (The Guardian) reflection on basketball, life, and home from the author of the National Book Award Finalist A Little Devil in America Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book I've ever read but one of the most moving books I've ever read, period. Steve James, director of Hoop Dreams A Publisher'S Weekly Best Book Of The Year Longlisted For The Andrew Carnegie Medal For Excellence In Nonfiction Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron James were forged and countless others weren't. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tension between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with intimate, personal storytelling. Here is where I would like to tell you about the form on my father's jump shot, Abdurraqib writes. The truth, though, is that I saw my father shoot a basketball only one time. Theres Always This Year is a triumph, brimming with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope.