A review by grace1994
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by Buzz Bissinger

5.0

Brilliantly written and such a fascinating topic. I've loved the show for years but hadn't read the book or seen the film (which it turns out are very different from the show). The book really drives home just how heartbreaking this life can be for almost everyone involved and just how unfairly these boys are treated - either cast aside if they get injured or made to feel invincible until they graduate when real life hits them and they're entirely unprepared. The racism was also shocking but shouldn't be too surprising since this is Texas in the late 80s. Overall, I was really captivated by this book and feel that H.G. Bissinger is an amazing writer who clearly cares deeply about these boys and (to a lesser extent) this town. He writes with a lot of heart but is still willing to write about what he saw with all its ugly truth.


5/5