A beautiful, melancholic and compulsively readable memoir. The author, Tillie Walden, spent 12 years as a competitive figure skater, despite the fact that she barely enjoyed the sport. The stress, exhaustion and constant pressure to conform silenced her ability to break out of the never ending routine. Layered on top of this was a series of physical and mental traumas: the fear of being outed as gay, routine bullying, an assault, two near-miss car wrecks. The quality of light and physical spaces of the skating rink are gorgeously and sparsely illustrated with just enough information to get the point across. Each page is carefully designed and latent with unspoken emotion. An effortless masterpiece of a book.