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4.47 AVERAGE
4.47 AVERAGE
This is a masterwork of lyrical storytelling, seamlessly weaving together the personal, the philosophical, and the cultural through the lens of basketball.
Abdurraqib’s prose is both intimate and expansive, turning memories of hometown courts and Cavaliers heartbreak into meditations on hope, belonging, and the stubborn beauty of striving.
His ability to fuse autobiography with sports history and existential reflection is extraordinary—he makes the reader feel the weight—and lightness—of every shot taken, missed, or dreamed.
Abdurraqib’s prose is both intimate and expansive, turning memories of hometown courts and Cavaliers heartbreak into meditations on hope, belonging, and the stubborn beauty of striving.
His ability to fuse autobiography with sports history and existential reflection is extraordinary—he makes the reader feel the weight—and lightness—of every shot taken, missed, or dreamed.
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Author speaks passionately and poetically, often about things that I don't much identify with (mostly sports and derision for the police). I'm glad to have read his disparaging opinion of the police, which is a point-of-view I know a lot of people have, though one I don't generally share.
I realized i'm not really into sport or sports metaphors. so just not for me.
emotional
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
As a lover of basketball and Ohio and poetry and family and personhood and home and the vastness of the human experience, this book is in my top 5 of all time. Abdurraqib speaks with wisdom and humility and clarity in this once in a generation book.
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
challenging
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced