She's Got Next: What others are saying.

"What I love so much about Melissa King's She's Got Next is the voice, which leaps off the page with no less power than the great pickup basketball players who populate this terrific book. Poetic and profane, funny and heartbreaking, it's a voice that catches you off guard from first page to last. A wonderful debut."

- Darcy Frey, author of The Last Shot

"More than a great sports book, Melissa King’s She’s Got Next is a great book, period - funny, wise, honest and smart. She’s Got Next is a thoroughly unique memoir from a woman who plays the game of basketball for what it teaches her about herself and about others. While playing street ball with and against players young and old, male and female, black and white, King discovers how and why we connect - or fail to - with each other as human beings. I want to read more Melissa King – she’s got game, and readers won’t need to know much basketball to realize that."

- Glenn Stout, editor of Best American Sports Writing and author of Red Sox Century and Yankees Century

"So many first-time authors get labeled 'original' these days, but pickup basketball queen-cum-reluctant philosopher Melissa King is the real deal. It's no surprise she's got game, but the girl also owns a champion's portion of sass, heart, brains and nerve. Not since “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” has there been a sweeter, groovier primer on how to live. I love this book."

- Karen Karbo, author of Motherhood Made a Man out of Me

"Once again the growing canon of literature about women and sports can welcome a new player onto the team roster, Melissa King, whose tribute to basketball and the almost mystical power it exerts on its fans and practitioners alike is a complete delight. In locales as varied as Arkansas and Chicago, Venice Beach and the hill towns of Massachusetts, the author's not so secret love affair with the game provides her and the other athletes she meets along the way joy and redemption in equal measure."

- Madeleine Blais, author of In These Girls Hope is a Muscle

"There's so much to love about She's Got Next: its urban rhythms, its deep dive into sport, its moments of great clarity and power. But most of all there’s Melissa King, companionable and wise and funny, finding herself on the courts."

-- Beth Kephart, author of Ghosts in the Garden: Reflections on Endings, Beginnings, and the Unearthing of Self