There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Part memoir, part cultural meditation, this lyrical work uses basketball as a lens to explore time, place, mortality, and what it means to come of age and keep rising. Moving between the rhythms of the game and the rhythms of a life, the author weaves together personal history, hometown loyalty, and the heroes who shaped a generation into a moving reflection on ambition, loss, and ascension. Tender, exhilarating, and deeply original, this is a book about the things we love, the time we're given, and the grace of always believing there's still this year.