Gabe soon finds community, safety, and a sense of belonging, reveling in the queer-friendly environment, tattoos, glitter, and campiness.
Louis, one of the top-rated teams in the country, and instantly falls in love with the sport's roughness, intensity, and open embrace of people who are literally and figuratively scarred. As she enters graduate school, she vows to put the trauma of her past behind her and to learn to fully inhabit her body. In this turbulent environment, she developed a severe eating disorder, learned to distrust herself, and lived in constant fear. Gabe Montesanti grew up queer in a working-class, Catholic family in a conservative small town in the Midwest. A crash course in the brutal, big-hearted world of roller derby, told through the unforgettable story of one young woman's fight to find her place in the world.
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