There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A powerful (The Guardian) reflection on basketball, life, and homefrom the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book Ive ever read but one of the most moving books Ive ever read, period.Steve James, director of Hoop Dreams Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like

Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys

Buffalo Fluffalo proclaims his superiority to the other creatures—the ram

With her trademark honesty and humor

The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers

Through his advocacy and his books

As a panicked search begins

or a special celebration

A young basketball player practices on the playground

but she can’t help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears

The writer finds himself in Hell boarding a bus bound for Heaven

Since its first publication

And so she pops down the rabbit hole