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John Grisham is an American novelist, attorney, politician, and activist. He is best known for his popular legal thrillers. However, his latest novel “Sooley” is set on a vastly different type of court, a basketball court. Samuel Sooleymon is a seventeen-year-old South Sudanese basketball player who receives the chance of a lifetime. He and his teammates are asked to play in a showcase basketball tournament in the United States. Sooleymon, Sooley for short, is an amazing athlete and this opportunity to be scouted by dozens of college coaches is a dream come true. During the tournament however, Sooley receives troubling news from home: a civil war is raging across South Sudan, his father is dead, his sister is missing, and his mother and two younger brothers are in a refugee camp. Sooley displays a fierce determination to succeed with one goal in mind to bring his family to America.