Description
A meditation on basketball as both art and altar, this book follows the game’s rhythms to explore how we grow into ourselves—through longing, loss, and the stubborn hope of return. With essays that move between personal memory and cultural observation, it traces what it means to keep playing, keep watching, and keep believing that the next season can still change you. Abdurraqib’s lyrical, essayistic style turns highlights and heartbreak into a language for ascension, asking how community, craft, and time shape the stories we tell about becoming. Equal parts sports writing and spiritual inquiry, it’s a celebration of the year that keeps coming back—because there’s always this year, even when it hurts.
Available Editions
paperback
Random House Publishing Group
Published Jan 1, 2024
353 pages
ISBN: 9780593448816
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First Published
2024
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib.