Every Variable of Us
Charles A. Bush
Alexis Duncan, a Black high-school student in Philadelphia, sees her hopes for a college basketball scholarship and a professional career disappear after she is injured in a gang shooting. Pressed to join the school’s science team, Alexis encounters a different route toward achievement. Her story follows the disruption caused by the shooting and the shift from one anticipated future toward new possibilities. Basketball, school, injury, and her changing ideas about success shape the novel’s central conflict.
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