


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. ZJ can understand that-but it doesn’t make the sting any less real when his own father forgets his name. ZJ’s mom explains it’s because of all the head injuries his dad sustained during his career. His dad is having trouble remembering things and seems to be angry all the time. But lately life at ZJ’s house is anything but charming. 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. For as long as ZJ can remember, his dad has been everyone’s hero. Her books include Coretta Scott King Award winner Before the Ever After, New York Times bestsellers The Day You Begin and Harbor Me The Other Side, Each Kindness, Caldecott Honor book Coming On Home Soon Newbery Honor winners Feathers, Show Way, and After Tupac and D Foster and Miracle's Boys, which received the LA Times Book Prize and the. National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson’s stirring novel explores how a family moves forward when their glory days have passed.
