The novel, which is in stores Jan. 17, follows Won Lee, a Korean American point guard for the New York Knicks who becomes a phenomenon when he replaces the team’s star starter after an injury.
It’s no surprise that Matthew Salesses turned to basketball for his latest novel, “The Sense of Wonder.”
Won makes a frenemy in Robert Sung, an ESPN journalist whose own dreams of basketball stardom were dashed after blowing out his knee in a high school game. Won has a much easier time dealing with his girlfriend, Carrie Kang, a producer who’s trying to bring K-dramas — South Korean television series — to the States.
Fans thrilling to an Asian American basketball star didn’t have long to enjoy Lin’s success before racism kicked in. After the Knicks lost a game in which Lin turned over the ball several times, the ESPN website ran a headline containing a racist slur; something similar happens to Won in the novel. Salesses, who is Korean American, recalls hearing about the ESPN headline shortly after it happened.
“They’re a lot of fun,” he says. “You know how they’d have special episodes of ‘Lost’ or whatever, where they’re directed by J.J. Abrams or some famous movie director? The K-dramas are all directed like that. The production value is so high and the actors are really good. There’s much less bowing to having to have multiple seasons and cashing in on the series. Instead, they’re just like, ‘I’m going to start the story and end the story and we’re just going to direct everything like a novel.
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