immovabletype 's review for:

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

3.75

reflective medium-paced

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went on a little too long for me — i could've done without the last quarter (literally, the book is organized into four quarters ala a basketball game) — but there's no denying Abdurraqib can write.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Classism

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Addiction, Cancer, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent