There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib's book "There's Always This Year" is one of the most anticipated books of 2024. It explores what it means to make it, who we think deserves success, and the tension between excellence and expectation. Abdurraqib's writing is poetry, profound, and a call to radically reimagine how we think about our culture and ourselves.

Format: Hardback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 26 March 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

One of the most anticipated books of 2024, according to Time, NPR, Chicago Review of Books, Lit Hub, Medium, The Millions, Book Riot, and numerous other publications, is "It Might Do All of Us Some Good to Reconsider What Making It Even Means."

Hanif Abdurraqib, a native of Columbus, Ohio, grew up witnessing a golden era of basketball in the 1990s, where legends like LeBron James were forged, while countless others were not. His lifelong love for the game leads him 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.

"There's Always This Year" is a triumph from one of America's most celebrated and insightful writers. It brims with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope. No matter the subject, Abdurraqib's exquisite writing is always poetry, always profound, and always a clarion call to radically reimagine how we think about our culture and ourselves.

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 were not. 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.

Theres Always This Year is a triumph from one of America's most celebrated and insightful writers. It brims with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope. No matter the subject, Abdurraqib's exquisite writing is always poetry, always profound, and always a clarion call to radically reimagine how we think about our culture and ourselves.

Weight: 458g
Dimension: 220 x 140 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780241697153