A review by stellahb
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

5.0

cried

"Look, I love you

and so I must tell you that anything that can be taken, will be taken. You are lucky if it is sudden. You are lucky if you survive the forest of reaching hands. The open window and the aching voice that floods a room and holds you firm to the night, thinking of all you have that might be gone upon your waking."