Coast to Coast

On May 17, 2019, Fernando Mahía embarked, with an old 2001 Dodge Grand Caravan van, on a long trip through the United States. The common thread was simple: understand the American idiosyncrasy through basketball. "The United States is a complex, polyhedral concept. A mestizo reality, despite what is claimed from inside and outside its borders. And few of its native expressions have mimicked that multicolored character as much as basketball." Between travel notes, dialogues with unforgettable characters, entertaining history lessons and visits to remote places of forgotten America and to some of the cathedrals of basketball, the author recounts, with humor and bad blood, the adventures of a road trip that starts in New York and runs through Springfield (Massachusetts), the Rust Belt, the Midwest, the Appalachians and the Deep South until it reaches the West Coast. James Naismith, Holcombe Rucker, Luis Felipe López, Dorothy Gaters, Otis Redding, LeBron James, Ryneldi Becenti, Pete Maravich, Marc Gasol, Earl Mannigault, Stephon Marbury, Schuye LaRue, Larry Bird or Jorge Gutiérrez are some of the stars of some wonderful stories that discover a new way of telling the past and present of this exciting country.