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Spinning

Title
Spinning / Tillie Walden.
Author
Walden, Tillie, 1996-
Publication
  • New York : First Second, [2017]
  • ©2017

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Description
395 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color); 23 cm
Summary
Ignatz Award winner Tillie Walden's powerful graphic memoir captures what it's like to come of age, come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know. It was the same every morning. Wake up, grab the ice skates, and head to the rink while the world was still dark. Weekends were spent in glitter and tights at competitions. Perform. Smile. And do it again. She was good. She won. And she hated it. For ten years, figure skating was Tillie Walden's life. She woke before dawn for morning lessons, went straight to group practice after school, and spent weekends competing at ice rinks across the state. Skating was a central piece of her identity, her safe haven from the stress of school, bullies, and family. But as she switched schools, got into art, and fell in love with her first girlfriend, she began to question how the close-minded world of figure skating fit in with the rest of her life, and whether all the work was worth it given the reality: that she, and her friends on the team, were nowhere close to Olympic hopefuls. The more Tillie thought about it, the more Tillie realized she'd outgrown her passion--and she finally needed to find her own voice.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Graphic novels.
  • Autobiographical comics.
  • Coming-of-age comics.
  • Autobiographies.
  • Biography.
Note
  • Graphic novel.
Awards (note)
  • Booklist Editor's Choice/Books for Youth 2017.
Call Number
JFD 18-1311
ISBN
  • 9781626729407
  • 1626729409
  • 9781626727724
  • 1626727724
LCCN
  • 2016961586
  • 40027764732
OCLC
964334474
Author
Walden, Tillie, 1996- author, artist.
Title
Spinning / Tillie Walden.
Publisher
New York : First Second, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
still image
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Creator/Contributor Characteristics
Americans
Women
Young adults
Lesbians
Figure skaters
Awards
Booklist Editor's Choice/Books for Youth 2017.
Other Standard Identifier
40027764732
Research Call Number
JFD 18-1311
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