Cover Image

Before the ever after

Show other versions (3)

National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson's stirring novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed and the cost of professional sports on Black bodies. For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a charming, talented pro football st...

Full description

Saved in:
Main Author: Woodson, Jacqueline (Author)
Other Authors: Lockard, Guy (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks eAudiobook Downloads eAudiobook
Language:English
Published: New York : Listening Library (Audio), 2020.
Edition:Unabridged.
Subjects:
Brain > Diseases > Juvenile fiction.
Best friends > Juvenile fiction.
Friendship > Juvenile fiction.
Fathers and sons > Juvenile fiction.
Memory > Juvenile fiction.
African Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Football > Juvenile fiction.
Football stories > Juvenile.
Sports fiction > Juvenile.
Novels in verse > Juvenile.
Downloadable audio books.
Online Access:Go to Downloadable Audiobook Here.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Summary:National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson's stirring novel-in-verse explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed and the cost of professional sports on Black bodies. For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone's hero. As a charming, talented pro football star, he's as beloved to the neighborhood kids he plays with as he is to his millions of adoring sports fans. But lately life at ZJ's house is anything but charming. His dad is having trouble remembering things and seems to be angry all the time. ZJ's mom explains it's because of all the head injuries his dad sustained during his career. ZJ can understand that -- but it doesn't make the sting any less real when his own father forgets his name. As ZJ contemplates his new reality, he has to figure out how to hold on tight to family traditions and recollections of the glory days, all the while wondering what their past amounts to if his father can't remember it. And most importantly, can those happy feelings ever be reclaimed when they are all so busy aching for the past?
Item Description:Unabridged.
Physical Description:1 online resource (2 audio files) : digital
Playing Time:02:14:51
Format:Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 63230 KB).
ISBN:9780593341223
Author Notes:Jacqueline Woodson was born in Columbus, Ohio on February 12, 1963. She received a B.A. in English from Adelphi University in 1985. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked as a drama therapist for runaways and homeless children in New York City. Her books include The House You Pass on the Way, I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This, Lena, and The Day You Begin. She won the Coretta Scott King Award in 2001 for Miracle's Boys. After Tupac and D Foster, Feathers, and Show Way won Newbery Honors. Brown Girl Dreaming won the E. B. White Read-Aloud Award in 2015. Her other awards include the Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. She was also selected as the Young People's Poet Laureate in 2015 by the Poetry Foundation.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Similar Items