Award-winning sportswriter, Melissa Isaacson, presents her memoir "State: A Team, A Triumph, A Transformation."
It is the story of an unlikely group of high school “tomboys”, how basketball rescued them from their collective frustrations and troubled homes, and how they pulled together to win an Illinois state high school girls’ basketball championship just after the passage of Title IX.
We recently had the chance to sit down with Northbrook resident Melissa Isaacson to ask her about her book and the writing process. Read her interview.