Underspin

Underspin"E. Y. Zhao's Underspin is an eruption of a debut. This novel displays a wondrous ability that renders both the central sport and lives that weave around it with meticulous precision and tremendous heart. The beauty of sport, the spirit of desire and the sacrifice required for greatness are all captured here in this stunner." Nana Kwame Adjei Brenyah, author of Chain Gang All Stars Stay True meets Headshot in this intimate, bruising coming of age

Or will they all end up feeling like the “new kid”

and murder

or the stories poised to change it all

the world around us

and a peculiarly insistent television-fee collector

It's time to construct an entirely new attitude about money

Prescient yet timeless

who she feels drawn to for reasons she can’t explain

she is imprisoned upon her return

the pitfalls of conventional liberalism

When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies

at turns soothing and scalding