Hanif Abdurraqib There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

《There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension》是一本由哈尼夫·阿卜杜拉基布（Hanif Abdurraqib）所著的深刻反思之作，它不仅仅是关于篮球的书籍，更是一次对生命、家庭和梦想的深度探索。

首先，这本书的标题就富含哲理，“总有明年”寓意着无论遭遇多少挫折和失败，总有新的机会和希望等待着我们。这种积极向上的态度贯穿全书，激励着读者面对困难时不轻言放弃。

哈尼夫·阿卜杜拉基布以篮球为切入点，通过个人的成长经历和观察，展现了篮球这项运动对他及其周围人的深远影响。书中，篮球不仅仅是一项竞技运动，它更是一种文化的传承、一种精神的寄托，以及个人成长道路上的重要伙伴。

阿卜杜拉基布的文字深情而富有力量，他巧妙地将个人故事与历史背景相结合，让读者在感受篮球魅力的同时，也能深刻体会到其中蕴含的社会和文化意义。他的笔触细腻，能够捕捉到那些看似平凡却又充满力量的瞬间，让读者在阅读过程中产生共鸣。

此外，《There's Always This Year》还探讨了成功、期望与角色模型等复杂议题。阿卜杜拉基布通过对篮球运动员、教练以及自己家庭成员的描写，展现了不同个体在面对成功与失败时的不同态度和选择。这些故事不仅令人感动，也引人深思。

总的来说，《There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension》是一本值得一读再读的好书。它不仅让我们更加了解篮球这项运动，更让我们从中汲取到了面对生活困境时的勇气和力量。无论是篮球爱好者还是文学爱好者，都能从这本书中获得深刻的启示和感动。


书名：There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

作者：Hanif Abdurraqib

简介：A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—from the author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America

While Hanif Abdurraqib is an acclaimed author, a gifted poet, and one of our culture’s most insightful critics, he is most of all, at heart, an Ohioan. Growing up in Columbus in the 1990s, Abdurraqib witnessed a golden era of basketball, one in which legends like LeBron 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 tensions between excellence and expectation, and the very notion of role models, all of which he expertly weaves together with memoir. “Here is where I would like to tell you about the form on my father’s jumpshot,” Abdurraqib writes. “The truth, though, is that I saw my father shoot a basketball only one time.”

There’s Always This Year is a classic Abdurraqib triumph, brimming with joy, pain, solidarity, comfort, outrage, and hope. It’s about basketball in the way They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us is about music and A Little Devil in America is about history—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, our country, and ourselves.