TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dillon,Alena
TI  - The happiest girl in the world: a novel 
SN  - 9780063019041
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - Women gymnasts
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women athletes
KW  - Olympic athletes
KW  - Gymnastics
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Sexual abuse victims
KW  - Olympics
KW  - Sports physicians
KW  - Dysfunctional families
KW  - Sports fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Psychological fiction
N1  - Includes "P.S. insights, interviews & more"
N2  - "For Sera Wheeler, the Olympics is the reason for everything. It's why she trains thirty hours a week, starves herself to under 100 pounds, and pops Advil like Tic Tacs. For her mother, Charlene, hungry for glory she never had, it's why she rises before dawn to drive Sera to practice in a different state, and why the family scrimps, saves, and fractures. They're why when Sera's best friends reports the gymnastics doctor to the authority who selects the Olympic team, Sera denies what she knows about his treatments, thus preserving favor. Their friendship shatters. But Sera protected her dream-- didn't she? Sera doubles down, taping broken toes, numbing torn muscles, and siphoning her family's resources. Soon she isn't training for the love of gymnastics; she's training to make her disloyalty worthwhile, no matter the cost."--Provided by publisher
ER  -