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Abdurraqib merges the personal and the universal in such a way that I cannot help but feel a part of these moments, despite some of them taking place before my birth, or before I was conscious of basketball’s existence.

The summer expands in front of them, and their future disappears. The cheap housing they are cooped up in becomes even less glamorous during the blackouts.

His fictional world, as presented in this novella, develops a split truth, one where narrative reality and absurdist abstraction hang in the balance.