Review of the Day: The Legend of Gravity by Charly Palmer

The Legend of Gravity: A Tall Basketball Tale
By Charly Palmer
Farrar Straus Giroux (an imprint of Macmillan)
$18.99
ISBN: 9780374313289
On shelves now.

Years and years ago in 2006 or so, Patricia McKissack wrote a book for kids that has stayed in my mind ever since. The book was called Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and Other Wily Characters and it was this marvelous collection of “liars’ tales”. Which is to say, tall tales told, in this case, historically in Black communities. Si...