03159cam a2200301 4500 1997884925 TxAuBib 20250306120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593821909 0593821904 c98677b4-5858-4a85-8006-126aa2d59af9 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9951434 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Abdurraqib, Hanif. There's Always This Year [Sunflower eLibrary Audiobook] : On Basketball and Ascension. Books on Tape, 2024. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 238MB. HTML:<b>LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A “powerful” (<i>The Guardian</i>) reflection on basketball, life, and home—from the author of the National Book Award finalist <i>A Little Devil in America</i></b><br /> <b>“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 <i>Hoop Dreams</i></b><br /> <b><br /> ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: <i>Vulture,</i> Chicago Public Library, <i>BookPage</i><br /> A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: <i>The New York Times Book Review, Time, The Washington Post,</i> NPR, <i>The Boston Globe,</i> The New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, <i>Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Book Riot, Electric Lit<br /></i></b><br /> <b>FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD</b><br /> 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.”<br /> <i>There’s Always This Year</i> 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.<br /> <b>LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION</b>. Biography & Autobiography. Multi-Cultural. Nonfiction. Sociology. Media Type: Audiobook. Libby Award Finalist. Best Audiobooks. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-03-05 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c98677b4-5858-4a85-8006-126aa2d59af9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)