A review by buttercupita
Becoming Kareem: Growing Up on and Off the Court by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld

5.0

Even just one chapter in, I was getting ready to press this book on everyone I know. Then, near the end, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar quotes a section from John Green's The Fault in Our Stars: "Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book." Of course, Abdul-Jabbar is talking about The Autobiography of Malcolm X, but it only added to my excitement about this book that he helped me write my Goodreads blurb. It's written for children, but it is written beautifully and the story is powerful. Just read it!