{"product_id":"9780593308493-on-top-of-glass-my-stories-as-a-queer-girl-in-figure-skating","title":"On Top Of Glass My Stories As A Queer Girl In Figure Skating","description":"Description: An insightful memoir from a figure skating champion about her life as a bisexual professional athlete perfect for readers of Fierce by Aly Raisman 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 US a to come out as queer. Her Modern Love essay \" I Can't Hate My Body if I Love Hers\" was published in the New York Times 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: On Top Of Glass My Stories As A Queer Girl In Figure Skating\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780593308493\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 12\/19\/2023\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Book Delivered","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49588070220081,"sku":"IN-G-9780593308493","price":13.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780593308493-on-top-of-glass-my-stories-as-a-queer-girl-in-figure-skating","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}