![]() ![]() ![]() When Justin and his best friend put together a team to play the invincible Ghosttown team, it seems that a Rocky-style battle of underdog vs. He’s reading Don Quixote and is kind of like the fictional protagonist, except his windmill is the social scene of Bushrod and his unfortunate, sometimes-disastrous, attempts to fit in. ![]() Who exactly is Justin Shaw? Is he “a good boy,” as his friend Omar, the Nigerian store owner, tells him? Is he “a nobody, a zero,” as he himself thinks? Maybe his imaginary headline has it right: “Simpleton Gives into Peer Pressure, Ruins Life.” Though he grew 7 inches last spring and is now 6-foot-4, at Bushrod, the local basketball court, he’s no good, “a mess of arms and legs, uncoordinated like you wouldn’t believe.” The brief novel is both a satisfying basketball story and an African-American boy’s first-person account of finding his way in the world. Alonge inaugurates a new basketball series set in Oakland, California, with a story featuring a young man trying to figure out basketball and life. ![]()
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