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A review by pangnaolin
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
4.75
This was such a wonderful book, I don't even know where to begin. I've never read a book that so beautifully weaved different stories and concepts-- place, community, growing up, and surviving.
It feels like a diminishing of sports writing to say it isn't sports writing, but I guess what I'd say is that it definitely isn't traditional. Basketball was an incredible and personal lens that allowed him to examine how people think & move through the world, alone and together.
I genuinely just adored this book so much. It feels like such a blur to try and think back through, but I'd really recommend it. Hanif loves his long-ass, vulnerable sentences and I love them, too.
It feels like a diminishing of sports writing to say it isn't sports writing, but I guess what I'd say is that it definitely isn't traditional. Basketball was an incredible and personal lens that allowed him to examine how people think & move through the world, alone and together.
I genuinely just adored this book so much. It feels like such a blur to try and think back through, but I'd really recommend it. Hanif loves his long-ass, vulnerable sentences and I love them, too.