Sooley

A gripping departure from the courtroom, John Grisham presents a high-stakes story of basketball, ambition, and the American dream.

Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon is a seventeen-year-old with raw talent and a chance to escape the war-torn landscape of South Sudan. When he is scouted to play in a showcase tournament in the United States, his life changes overnight. However, while he is chasing success on the court, devastating news reaches him from home: his village has been attacked, his father is dead, and his mother and siblings are in a refugee camp.

Driven by a desperate need to rescue his family, Sooley pushes himself to become a basketball legend. But as his fame grows, so do the pressures of his new life. Sooley is an emotionally charged novel that combines the thrill of a sports underdog story with a harrowing look at the realities of the global refugee crisis.