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On Top of Glass by Karina Manta

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On Top of Glass

My Stories As a Queer Girl in Figure Skating

Karina Manta

Random House Children's Books · Print & ebook · December 19, 2023

Reading lane: Winter Sports

An insightful memoir from a figure skating champion about her life as a bisexual professional athlete, perfect for readers of Fierce by Aly Reisman and Forward by Abby Wambach.

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Who It's For

Good for readers interested in sportsGood for readers who enjoy Winter Sports and Ice Skating Stories.

Book Details

Authors
Karina Manta
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Published
December 19, 2023
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Winter Sports · Ice Skating Stories
Reading lane
Winter Sports

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Publisher Categories

  • Sports Biographies

  • Eating Disorders & Body Image (YA)

About This Book

An insightful memoir from a figure skating champion about her life as a bisexual professional athlete, perfect for readers of Fierce by Aly Reisman and Forward by Abby Wambach. Karina Manta has had a busy few years: Not only did she capture the hearts of many with her fan-favorite performance at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, she also became the first female figure skater on Team USA to come out as queer. Her Modern Love essay "I Can't Hate My Body if I Love Hers" wa...

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An insightful memoir from a figure skating champion about her life as a bisexual professional athlete, perfect for readers of Fierce by Aly Reisman and Forward by Abby Wambach. Karina Manta has had a busy few years: Not only did she capture the hearts of many with her fan-favorite performance at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, she also became the first female figure skater on Team USA to come out as queer. Her Modern Love essay "I Can't Hate My Body if I Love Hers" was published, and then she joined the circus--Cirque du Soleil's on-ice show, AXEL. Karina's memoir covers these experiences and much more. Attending a high school with 4,000 students, you'd expect to know more than two openly gay students, but Karina didn't meet an out-lesbian until she was nearly seventeen--let alone any other kind of queer woman. But this isn't just a story about her queerness. It's also a story about her struggle with body image in a sport that prizes delicate femininity. It's a story about panic attacks, and first crushes, and all the crushes that followed, and it's a story about growing up, feeling different than everybody around her and then realizing that everyone else felt different too.

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