Description: An impoverished fifteen-year-old linebacker grapples with ideas about strength and masculinity after the dope-dealing father he idolized goes missing.
Brief description: T. L. Simpson is an award-winning journalist and editor of the Courier, a newspaper in his hometown of Russellville, Arkansas. Simpson spent nearly ten years covering high school and collegiate sports before taking over as editor. During that time, he was also the paper's primary crime reporter. In a lot of ways, Strong Like You is the result of his experiences with covering both.
Review Quotes:
"Strong Like You is an engaging novel in which a high school football star is forced to confront his ideas of manhood and forge better ones." --Foreword Reviews