(Happy to have Ron weigh in today - one of the pioneers of online squash reporting!)
October 16, 2018
Excellent, insightful view of a champion who had to navigate two worlds and cultures:
This book is surprising and exceptional. This is no mere memoir of a
sports star. This is far beyond that. It provides surprisingly candid,
thoughtful, and clear vignettes into the journey that Sharif Khan has
taken to navigate worlds, cultures, and changing times. It explores the
pain of cultural traditions, prejudice, paths out of poverty and much
more. I count Sharif as a friend and this book that he has produced
together with Karen and Rob Dinerman is worthy of his dignity and moral
compass and reveals some personal secrets!
Amidst the fairly small universe of published squash books, this one
fills an important hole. The Khan extended family, and their
important imprint on North American squash, constitutes such a crucial
and important part of the story of squash in the USA and Canada from
1960 through the present, that it is long overdue that a high quality
narrative preserves and explains that history. This book is
particularly insightful in revealing some of the whys and hows as to
how two entire parts of the Khan clan (Hashim and his family and Mo and
Gul and their family) ended up in North America.
