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sydapel 's review for:
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
by Hanif Abdurraqib
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Admittedly, a lot of the names/lingo for the basketball players themselves went directly over my head, but I knew I was mostly picking this up for Abdurraqib's astounding ability to write from such an emotional, yet honest and direct place and connect disparate topics together succintly. This book is a book about basketball, yes, but it's also a book about childhood heros, leaving home, what home looks like, grief, loss, the list goes on and on. I have to remind myself to slow down and enjoy the art of his writing, but it's so worth is when I do.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Grief, Death of parent