Sammi Jones’s comic memoir of women’s flat track roller derby, told through experimental vignettes including text messages, instructional illustrations, lists, a derby glossary and a Shakespearean sonnet. She follows her progress from ‘fresh meat’ recruit to seasoned jammer, with detours through sobriety tests, emergency rooms, failing relationships and lost weekends, as derby forces her to confront her demons and her own sexual identity, including coming out to her mother.
Details
| Title: Derby Girl |
| Author: Sammi Jones |
| ISBN: 9780911042979 |
| Subtitle: A Memoir |
| Genre: Coming Out; Memoir; Sports |
| Subject(s): Biography & Autobiography; Human Sexuality; Psychology; Roller & In-Line Skating; Sports & Recreation |
| Publication Date: 2017 |
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| Publisher: North Dakota State University Press |
| Language: English |
| Format: Hardcover |
| Pages: 178 |
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| Notes: Finalist, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book Awards, Autobiography & Memoir and LGBT (Adult Nonfiction). Setting: North Dakota. |
| Book_ID: 119067 |