Ball dont lie, mexican whiteboy, we were here, i will save you, the living, and his most recent book, the hunted. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. It stars and1 mixtape team member grayson boucher, a. Once you get past the basketball details if youre not a sports person, that is, you will find an amazing, interesting, and absorbing story of a boy who is working hard at the only chance hes got to beat the odds. Seventeenyearold sticky has been shuffled to different foster homes and living on the streets. A skinny high school junior and basketball prodigy from venice, california burdened with early life tragedy callous foster care and obsessivecompulsive disorder, sticky manages to surpass his limits whenever he has a ball in his hands.
Matt received his mfa in creative writing from san diego state university and his ba from the. Retired basketball player rasheed wallace was the worlds foremost proponent of ball dont lie as a way of life. He suffers from obsessivecompulsive disorder, which embarrasses him, so he just cant help doing certain things over and over until they feel right. He has a passion for basketball and he sees it for his way out of his problems. Ball dont lie is a 2008 film directed by brin hill. Before he retired, he left behind this exemplum of the phrases use. The film premiered at the 2008 tribeca film festival. Ball dont lie presents a story so unique both in the main character and in the form of narrative, that i found myself wishing for the book not to end. The book is a gritty comingofage story of a troubled throwaway named sticky. Ball dont lie 2008 a skinny high school junior and basketball prodigy from venice, california burdened with early life tragedy callous foster care and obsessivecompulsive disorder, sticky manages to surpass his limits whenever he has a ball in his hands. Ball dont lie king county library system overdrive.
Matt received his mfa in creative writing from san diego state university and his ba from the university of the pacific, where he attended school. I honestly haven t watched a full nba game since larry bird and michael jordon were both still playing. The story of boxing legend joe louis, a book for younger readers illustrated by kadir nelson. Hill brilliantly weaves the narrative through a series of flashbacks that reveal the many layers of stickys troubled childhood. Ball dont lie plays out over one day in the life of sticky boucher. The bulletin sticky is a beataroundthehead foster kid with nowhere to call home but the. S this is a work of art by a newcomer to the field.
He attended the university of the pacific on a basketball scholarship and went on to earn a master of fine arts in creative writing at san diego state. This is not the first book i read from this author, and i have to say im impressed by his writing. Sticky is a young teenager trying to find his way and make sense of a world where he feels alone. The setting in this novel takes place in a newly built local rec center named the lincoln rec.
The book is a gritty comingofage story of a troubled throwaway named sticky his real name. He attended the university of the pacific on a basketball scholarship and went on to earn a master of fine arts in creative writing at san diego state university. The characters are wonderfully written and the story is excellent. Though travis reichard is the protagonists given name, his moniker is. There, it isnt about his dead mother, his shoplifting habit, or even his girlfriend. Seventeenyearold sticky has been shuffled to different foster homes and living on the streets since his mothers death. The bulletin sticky is a beataroundthehead foster kid with nowhere to call home but the street, and an outer shell so tough that no one. I honestly havent watched a full nba game since larry bird and michael jordon were both still playing. Though travis reichard is the protagonists given name, his moniker is sticky.
May 06, 2020 matt received his mfa in creative writing from san diego state university and his ba from the university of the pacific, where he attended school on a full athletic scholarship for basketball. The book is a gritty comingofage story of a troubled throwaway named sticky his real name, travis reichard, is rarely used. Sticky is a beataroundthehead foster kid with nowhere to call ho. Hes a white boy who always go to the rec center surrounded by black people who test him. Ball dont lie is the comingofage story of sticky newcomer grayson boucher, a skinny 17. Its a dark tale about a basketball player, related in the third person about a teenager whose personal history couldnt be. He started out life so far behind the pack that the finish line seems nearly unreachable. All though sticky is very passionate about the game and playing ball, he in a way has an alterego that is tested later on in the book. Dawnbreaker and five picture books including last stop on market street and love. Ball don t lie plays out over one day in the life of sticky, a skinny 17yearold high school junior and basketball prodigy from venice, california. He then received his mfa in creative writing from san diego state university. With rosanna arquette, grayson boucher, ludacris, nick cannon.