Brothers On Three

ournalism is rife with reporters who, in the parlance of the trade, “parachute in” to places they’re, published in September, is not one of those stories. Streep, who’s based in Santa Fe, spent the better part of a year living on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, immersed in the lives of a group of boys who’d improbably won a state basketball championship in 2017. The resulting book—which grew out of an article Streep penned for the —is by turns a rousing tale of a singular basketball team pursuing a second and even more unlikely title, a chronicle of the persistent racism and college recruitment discrimination faced by the players and their families, and a snapshot of small-town life on the reservation. Streep is at his best when he’s recounting the complicated lives of the team’s players and how they care for one another through a series of tragedies. But his prose about the rugged landscape paints a portrait that will live in your mind long after you finish his book.