Title: The Assist
Description: "Anyone who cares about Boston and race and hope and hoops will take heart from Neil Swidey's The Assist, in which decent kids jockey for a lucky break in a world in which decency and luck are often in short supply. Set in compact, feisty, history-haunted Charlestown, this book is a powerhouse work of literary journalism about a powerhouse basketball program and the coach who would't take no for an anwser." Madeleine Blais, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle, from the bookjacket.
Subjects: Sport & Recreation, Basketball, O'Brien, Jack, Charlestown High School (Boston, Mass.), School sports, Boston, SPORTS & RECREATION, Sports, united states
Places: Boston, Massachusetts
People: Jack O'Brien