There's Always This Year

<p><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER </b><b>ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2024 ACCORDING TO </b><i>TIME, </i><b>NPR, </b><i>Chicago Review of Books</i><b>,</b><i> Lit Hub</i><b>, </b><i>Medium</i><b>, </b><i>The Millions</i><b>, <i>Book Riot</i>,</b><b> and more <br></b><b><i><br>It might do all of us some good to reconsider what ''making it'' even means.</i></b><br><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.<br><br><i>There¿s Always This Year</i> is a triumph from one of America¿s most celebrated and insightf