![]() ![]() Before the Ever After illuminates the power of friendship and community, and it will make you want to hug your loved ones a little tighter. This novel sheds light on the terrible brain injuries many football players sustain on the field, and it demonstrates, with beautiful and heart-wrenching poetry, how so many athletes lose life as they knew it at an unfairly young age. Fortunately, ZJ has three incredible friends who stick by him throughout it all, even when many other “friends” fade away because his dad is no longer a star. Through the daily ups and downs of his dad’s condition, ZJ clings to the memories of life before-life when his dad was happy and famous, when he would sing and write songs with ZJ, and when ZJ’s mom didn’t always look so sad and tired. As ZJ’s mom and many doctors try to figure out what is wrong, ZJ is left mostly alone to process these changes and mourn the loss of the father he used to know. ![]() Through the eyes of twelve-year-old ZJ, Woodson tells the story of ZJ’s dad, a famous pro football player who is suddenly plagued by long, intense headaches, dramatic mood changes, and unnerving memory loss. Jaqueline Woodson has done it again with this gorgeous novel in verse. ![]()
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