Brothers on Three, Abe Streep
Brothers on Three, Abe Streep
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Brothers on Three
A True Story of Family, Resistance, and Hope on a Reservation in Montana

Author: Abe Streep

Narrator: Shaun Taylor-Corbett

Unabridged: 10 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/07/2021


Synopsis

"A heart-stomping, heart-stopping read. Unsentimental. Unforgettable. Astonishing. Brothers on Three captures the roar of a community spirit powered by blood history, loyalty, and ferocious love."
—Debra Magpie Earling, author of Perma Red

From journalist Abe Streep, the story of coming of age on a reservation in the American West and a team uniting a community

March 11, 2017, was a night to remember: in front of the hopeful eyes of thousands of friends, family members, and fans, the Arlee Warriors would finally bring the high school basketball state championship title home to the Flathead Indian Reservation. The game would become the stuff of legend, with the boys revered as local heroes. The team’s place in Montana history was now cemented, but for starters Will Mesteth, Jr. and Phillip Malatare, life would keep moving on—senior year was only just beginning.

In Brothers on Three, we follow Phil and Will, along with their teammates, coaches, and families, as they balance the pressures of adolescence, shoulder the dreams of their community, and chart their own individual courses for the future.

Brothers on Three is not simply a story about high school basketball, about state championships and a winning team. It is a book about community, and it is about boys on the cusp of adulthood, finding their way through the intersecting worlds they inhabit and forging their own paths to personhood.

A Macmillan Audio production from Celadon Books

About Abe Streep

Abe Streep has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Outside, The California Sunday Magazine, WIRED, Columbia Journalism Review, and Harper's. His writing has been anthologized in Best American Sports Writing and noted by Best American Essays and Best American Science and Nature Writing. He is a recipient of the 2019 American Mosaic Journalism Prize for deep reporting on underrepresented communities.


Reviews

Goodreads review by jv

Mr. Streep came to Montana for the purpose of writing an article featuring the phenomenal Arlee Warriors. The story, though, is much bigger than the fierce high-school basketball team. It is really about the community. Life on the reservation, unfathomable denials of further education opportunities......more

Goodreads review by Jeffrey

“In the past year, he had transformed from a failing student and potential dropout to a star shooting guard on a dominant team. People now put him on posters and talked about him in barbershops.” Sports can be transformative. It can give a young man or woman a purpose that lifts them above a stressfu......more

**Many thanks to @CeladonBooks and @abestreep for an ARC of this book! Now available as of 9.7!** A band of brothers brought together by basketball, their reservation, and their joint cause take on the world...one championship at a time! The Arlee Warriors are a basketball team out of Montana's Flathe......more

Goodreads review by Chris

Again, so far behind on my reviews. My bad. This account of a Native American basketball team that wins a state championship (two, in fact) in the midst of a suicide epidemic on the reservation is deeply inspiring. The players share their stories which are revealing and, in some cases, haunting, and......more