“I was on vacation in Mexico a couple of weeks ago, in the calm before the storm of book tour, in a secluded pueblo with my family, and Bill Simmons’ The Book of Basketball was on the shelf. It absorbed my entire vacation. He redefined modern sportswriting, with that frenzied, argumentative style. . . . I read the whole thing in the week that followed while I was lying on the beach.”
Adam Mansbach, author of Rage is Back
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Debut novel from Laura Lee Smith explores a fractured family living in a fictional small town on the cusp of change.
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