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A Sharp Endless Need

by Crane

Basketball, first love, and the edge of adulthood

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Lambda Literary Award finalist

    Lambda Literary Award finalist

  • Editorial selection

    Book Riot Best Book of the Year

    Named a Best Book of the Year by Book Riot

AlbakiReads Editorial

Basketball, first love, and the edge of adulthood

Mack’s senior year brings grief and a new partnership on the basketball court, where transfer student Liv becomes both teammate and romantic interest. The game gives the novel a setting for questions that extend beyond competition: how ambition shapes a young person’s choices, and what happens when desire and loss arrive alongside the pressure to decide on a future. With a small Pennsylvania town and a college signing deadline in the frame, the story connects the intensity of high school sport to the uncertainties of growing up.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in coming-of-age stories shaped by sport and high school life.
  • Readers looking for fiction about first love alongside grief and the pressure of future choices.

Themes

Coming of ageCompetitive basketballFirst loveGriefAmbition and self-destruction

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Book overview

LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST - A vibrant and intimate novel about growing up, first love, and all the joy and heartbreak of competitive high school basketball, from the Lambda Literary Award-winning author of I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Deeply affecting . . . Crane's writing drives forward hard and fast. . . . Knowledge of the sport isn't required to understand the novel; all you need is a familiarity with loving something to the point of pain."--Casey McQuiston, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice)

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Elle, them, Book Riot

Star point guard Mack Morris's senior year of high school begins with twin cataclysms: the death of Mack's father and the arrival of transfer student Liv Cooper. Playing side by side for their high school basketball team, Mack and Liv discover an electrifying, game-winning chemistry on the court. Off the court, they fall into an equally intoxicating more-than-friendship--one that feels out-of-bounds in their small Pennsylvania town. Mack teeters on the precipice of adulthood as desire and grief collide with drugs, sex, and the looming college signing deadline. Caught between the dual impulses of ambition and self-destruction, Mack must decide what kind of life they want to fight for.

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