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tommooney's review
5.0
This is a great sports novel, of which there are very few. Scratch that, it's more accurate to say this is an excellent novel, that happens to be about sports. Markovits has a style that's easy to quickly engage with, that makes you sympathise with characters who are all imperfect, are never 100% likable, yet you understand and root for them; what I'm saying is, they're real. It's got a ring of Elizabeth Strout or Nickolas Butler about it, in many ways.
This is a book about basketball, about greatness, about living a life in the shadow of that greatness. It tackles identity, privilege, race and family. But above all, it's a book about the fading sheen of youth. About what is left in life when all you expected from it has either happened or passed you by. I absolutely loved it.
This is a book about basketball, about greatness, about living a life in the shadow of that greatness. It tackles identity, privilege, race and family. But above all, it's a book about the fading sheen of youth. About what is left in life when all you expected from it has either happened or passed you by. I absolutely loved it.
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