Brian G. reviewed on 12/12/2011 + 7 more book reviews

The book is essentially a story about a basketball team. The author tries to make it more than that by talking about politics and race, but his treatment of the issues is pretty superficial. He also relies a bit on stereotypes to make his point, with the exception of his discussion of the ANWR drilling issue. He talks about the local politics of that issue in an interesting and straightforward way.

But all of these issues are just to fill out the book. It's primarily a story of a high school basketball team from a small native village in remote Alaska. The book follows the team over the course of the season. Each of the games is described in the book. Some of the games are summarized without much interesting detail, but others are described quite well.

I think it would make an excellent book for a young sports fan. There is some swearing, and drugs and alcohol play a small part, but nothing graphic or extreme.

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