{"product_id":"theres-always-this-year-on-basketball-and-ascension","title":"There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension","description":"\u003cp\u003ehardcover, remaindered copy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2024 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Memoir\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e“powerful” (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ereflection on basketball, life, and home—from the author of the National Book Award finalist\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Little Devil in America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGrowing up in Columbus, Ohio, in the 1990s, Hanif Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron James were forged and countless others weren’t. His lifelong love of the game leads Abdurraqib into a lyrical, historical, and emotionally rich exploration of what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, the tension between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with intimate, personal storytelling. “Here is where I would like to tell you about the form on my father’s jump shot,” Abdurraqib writes. “The truth, though, is that I saw my father shoot a basketball only one time.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere’s Always This Year\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis a triumph, brimming with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope. No matter the subject of his keen focus—whether it’s basketball, or music, or performance—Hanif Abdurraqib’s exquisite writing is always poetry, always profound, and always a clarion call to radically reimagine how we think about our culture, our country, and ourselves.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Beck's Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43567919497282,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/8101\/7666\/files\/9780593448793-l.jpg?v=1775688562","url":"https:\/\/becksbooksmpls.com\/products\/theres-always-this-year-on-basketball-and-ascension","provider":"Beck's Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}