Young Adult Fiction Prejudice & Racism
The Hoop and the Harm
- Publisher
- James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2023
- Category
- Prejudice & Racism, Activism & Social Justice, General
- Recommended Age
- 13 to 18
- Recommended Grade
- 8 to 12
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781459417151
- Publish Date
- Apr 2023
- List Price
- $16.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781459417229
- Publish Date
- Apr 2023
- List Price
- $27.99
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Description
Udoka Clendon is a first-year university student and a product of basketball systems that have produced professional players.
From very young, he’s been pushed relentlessly by his family on a troubling pursuit for an athletic scholarship. He is burdened by expectations and self-doubt. Udoka tries to reignite his passion for the game. Now, he’s been given a final opportunity at the city-wide tournament to rediscover his confidence and his sense of purpose—all of which he fears he has lost forever.
With the clarity and poetic style of a seasoned writer, and drawing on his own time as an elite sports prospect, Jawara Pedican shows the trials and traumas of becoming fixated on a dream of sports stardom.
About the author
Jawara Pedican is a former member of both the McGill University and University of Toronto men’s varsity basketball teams. With a wealth of memories from his playing days, he decided to offer young readers a semi-autobiographical account of his experiences and trials and tribulations as a collegiate athlete. He is a kinesiologist and more recently a medical editor for a life sciences marketing agency headquartered in Toronto. He lives in Alliston, Ontario.