Quick thread, but please indulge me. In Aug 2021, my book “Across the River,” about a New Orleans high school football program in a city besieged by gun violence, published. Big @TODAYshow piece. Smokehouse Pictures got film rights. @nypost & @latimes named it a best book of '21. But for me, the true honor was that the wonderful, inspiring humans at Karr trusted me to tell their story: one of Black strength and incredible resolve in the face of poverty, all-too-frequent death, and long odds.