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There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension Audiobook
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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “powerful” (The Guardian) reflection on basketball, life, and home—from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America
“Mesmerizing . . . not only the most original sports book I’ve ever read but one of the most moving books I’ve ever read, period.”—Steve James, director of Hoop Dreams
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Vulture, Chicago Public Library, BookPage
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, The Washington Post, NPR, The Boston Globe, The New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Book Riot, Electric Lit
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
Growing 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.”
There’s Always This Year is 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.
LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION
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“His narration is as breathless and beautiful as his prose; this book is epic in every sense of the word…His narration is like music: rough and loud one moment, low and soft the next. A masterpiece…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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“This lyrical memoir…is about basketball as much as Titanic is about a lost necklace…It’s also about beauty and loss and time.”
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“Structured like a game in quarters and minutes, it’s a galvanic drive through the intricacies of family, community, belief, and dreams…a profound performance.”
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“The narrative works as if by alchemy, forging personal anecdotes, sports history, and cultural analysis into a bracing contemplation of the relationship between sport teams and their communities.”
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“Lyrically stunning and profoundly moving…a gorgeously personal triumph.”
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“Mesmerizing…not only the most original sports book I’ve ever read but one of the most moving books I’ve ever read, period.”
— Steve James, director of Hoop Dreams
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Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award
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A #1 Amazon bestseller
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A New York Times bestseller
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Winner of the Audie Award for Best Narration in Nonfiction
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A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2024
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Longlisted for the National Book Award
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Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
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Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
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A Chicago Public LIbrary Pick of the Year's Top 10 Books
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A Vulture.com Pick of Top 10 Books of 2024
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A Time Magazine Best Book of the Year
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A Washington Post Best Book of 2024
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A Boston Globe Best Books of the Year Pick
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A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
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About Hanif Abdurraqib
Hanif Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, cultural critic, and author, whose books include A Little Devil in America, winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Gordon Burns Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award. His first collection of essays, They Can’t Kill Us until They Kill Us, was named one of the books of the year by NPR, Esquire, BuzzFeed, O: The Oprah Magazine, Pitchfork, and Chicago Tribune, among others. Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the National Book Award.