#1 Bestseller
National Book Award Longlisted and #1 National Bestseller. Hanif Abdurraqib returns to his Columbus roots to explore basketball as a language of aspiration and belonging. Weaving personal history with cultural analysis, this lyrical memoir examines what it means to make it—and who gets left behind.
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National Book Award Longlisted • New York Times Bestseller • Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
In this #1 National Bestseller, Hanif Abdurraqib returns to his Columbus, Ohio roots to explore basketball not just as a game, but as a language of aspiration, heartbreak, and home. Growing up in the 1990s, Abdurraqib witnessed the making of legends—LeBron James among them—while countless others fell short of their dreams. What does it mean to make it? Who decides who deserves success?
These questions pulse through every page of this stunning memoir, which weaves together the author’s personal history with the mythology of basketball itself. There’s Always This Year is about fathers and sons, about the weight of expectation and the grace of excellence, about the communities that shape us and the stories we tell ourselves about belonging.
Abdurraqib’s prose is lyrical and precise, moving effortlessly between intimate family moments and sweeping cultural analysis. “Mesmerizing,” says Hoop Dreams director Steve James, calling it “not only the most original sports book I’ve ever read but one of the most moving books I’ve ever read, period.”
Named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by Vulture and the Chicago Public Library, and a best book by The New York Times Book Review, Time, The Washington Post, NPR, and many others, this is essential reading for anyone who has ever loved a game—or longed for home.
Mesmerizing... not only the most original sports book I've ever read but one of the most moving books I've ever read, period.
A gorgeous meditation on basketball, masculinity, Blackness, and the Midwest.
Abdurraqib's prose moves with the grace and power of the athletes he writes about.
A lyrical exploration of basketball, family, and what it means to come from somewhere.
Abdurraqib writes with the precision of a point guard and the soul of a poet.
A masterwork of personal and cultural history.
| Weight | 0.59 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 5.19 × 0.72 × 8.00 in |
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| Subject | Basketball, Biographies, Biographies & Memoirs, Black & African American, Community & Culture, Ethnic Studies, Memoirs, Politics & Social Sciences, Reference, Social Sciences, Sociology, Sports & Outdoors |
| Accolade | #1 Bestseller, National Bestseller, National Book Award, New York Times Bestseller |
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