![]() ![]() ![]() You don't know whether you're going to make the crowd cheer or boo." You don't know whether you're going to win or lose. When you step out on a basketball court, no matter how well prepared you are, you really don't know how things are going to go. "As I was following the team, I was struck by the courage of the coaches and especially the players," Yang tells me in an email interview. Gene Luen Yang is known as a cartoonist - the author of American Born Chinese and the New Super-Man comics, he's received a MacArthur genius grant for his work, and the Library of Congress named him as its Ambassador for Young People's Literature in 2016.īut for years, Yang was a computer science teacher at Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland, Calif., and his new book Dragon Hoops, chronicles a year he spent observing the school's incredibly talented basketball team as they strove for the state championship. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ![]() Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Dragon Hoops Author Gene Luen Yang ![]()
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