How Hanif Abdurraqib Learned to Surrender Himself to the Process

I was trying to make a book that didn't look like anything else I'd ever seen before, stylistically, formally.

But it became a book about place. It became a book about my dad too. A lot of my dad.

Essays about grief bleed into essays about dreaming, and community, and pickup games, and, more than once, LeBron.

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