It's called "The Sense Of Wonder," with his protagonist, Won Lee, being dubbed The Wonder when he goes on a winning streak for the New York Knicks. Won Lee is the only Asian American in the NBA.

"The Sense of Wonder" (Little, Brown) follows basketball star Won Lee, and sportswriter Robert Sung, who covers the amazing streak of the NBA's first Asian American player.

In "The Sense of Wonder," by Matthew Salesses, an Asian American basketball player becomes an international star, but the contests off the court are tougher.

Won Lee, the protagonist of the novel The Sense of Wonder, is the only Asian American player in the NBA. But as was true for real-life basketball star Jeremy Lin, things can get very ugly – and ...

This quote serves as the epigraph for Matthew Salesses’s audacious fourth novel, “The Sense of Wonder. ... THE SENSE OF WONDER. By Matthew Salesses. Little, Brown, 256 pages, $28.

Matthew Salesses is the author of the just-published “The Sense of Wonder,” a novel about a Korean American basketball star, which was in part inspired by former Knicks player Jeremy Lin ...