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001			on1248598580
003			OCoLC
005			20220608114539.0
008			210420s2022 nyu 000 0aeng
010			_a 2021016592
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020			_a9780593241370 _q(hardcover) : _c$27.00
020			_a0593241371 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1248598580
042			_apcc
043			_an-us---
092			_aMONTESAN G. _bM779
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aMontesanti, Gabe, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aBrace for impact : _ba memoir / _cGabe Montesanti.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2205
264		1	_aNew York : _bThe Dial Press, _c[2022]
300			_a405 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"Gabe Montesanti grew up queer in a working-class, conservative Catholic family in the Midwest, where she was taught to prioritize strength and impenetrability over vulnerability and honesty. In this emotionally, physically, and spiritually abusive environment, she developed a severe eating disorder, never learned to trust herself, and lived in constant fear. As she enters graduate school, she vows to put the trauma of her past behind her and to learn to fully inhabit her body. She joins Arch Rival Roller Derby in St. Louis, one of the top-rated teams in the country, and instantly falls in love with the roughness, intensity, and roller derby's open embrace of people who are literally and figuratively scarred. Gabe soon finds community, safety, and a sense of belonging, reveling in the queer-friendly environment, the tattoos, glitter, and campiness. She chooses the derby name Joan of Spark, modeling herself after the fierce and independent Joan of Arc, to signify all the ways she's left behind the baggage of her childhood. But when Gabe suffers a catastrophic injury, her unresolved trauma catches up to her. In the aftermath of her accident, it becomes impossible to ignore how the physicality of roller derby mirrors the emotional violence of her upbringing. Gabe's arduous physical recovery is matched only by the painful process of beginning to heal her emotional wounds. Forced to reckon with her past, she must decide if she can be Joan of Spark off the track, too--skating into a bolder, truer future"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aMontesanti, Gabe.
650		0	_aWomen roller skaters _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aLesbians _zUnited States _vBiography. _985619
650		0	_aPsychologically abused children _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aSports injuries _xPatients _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aRoller derby _xSocial aspects _zUnited States.
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
655		0	_aLGBTQ+.
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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