This event takes place on Crowdcast, Charis' virtual event platform. This event is free, but registration is required. 

Charis welcomes Mac Crane in conversation with Kevin Wilson for a discussion of A Sharp Endless Need, a vibrant and intimate novel about growing up, first love, and all the joy and heartbreak of competitive high school basketball.

Star point guard Mack Morris’s senior year of high school begins with twin cataclysms: the death of Mack’s father and the arrival of transfer student Liv Cooper. Playing side by side for their high school basketball team, Mack and Liv discover an electrifying, game-winning chemistry on the court. Off the court, they fall into an equally intoxicating more-than-friendship—one that feels out-of-bounds in their small Pennsylvania town. Mack teeters on the precipice of adulthood as desire and grief collide with drugs, sex, and the looming college signing deadline. Caught between the dual impulses of ambition and self-destruction, Mack must decide what kind of life they want to fight for.

Written with the lush longing of André Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name, the obsessive attention of Jean Kyoung Frazier’s Pizza Girl, and the sweeping romance of the beloved film Love & Basketball, A Sharp Endless Need is a stunning testament to the big feelings of coming of age, falling in love, and, of course, playing sports.

Mac Crane is a former college basketball player and the author of the novels, A Sharp Endless Need and I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself, which was an Indie Next Pick, NYT Editors’ Choice, and LAMBDA Literary award winner. They have received fellowships from American Short Fiction, Sewanee Writers Conference, and Vermont Studio Center. Born in Allentown, PA, they currently live in San Diego with their family.

Kevin Wilson is the author of seven books, including Nothing to See Here, which was a New York Times bestseller and a Read With Jenna selection, and Run for the Hills, which was published in May. He lives in Sewanee, TN, with his wife, the poet Leigh Anne Couch, and his sons.

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A Sharp Endless Need: Mac Crane in Conversation with Kevin Wilson