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\r\n\r\nSammi 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.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n
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Title: <\/strong>\u00a0Derby Girl<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Author: <\/strong>\u00a0Sammi Jones<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
ISBN: <\/strong>\u00a09780911042979<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Subtitle: <\/strong>\u00a0A Memoir<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Genre: <\/strong>\u00a0Coming Out; Memoir; Sports<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Subject(s): <\/strong>\u00a0Biography & Autobiography; Human Sexuality; Psychology; Roller & In-Line Skating; Sports & Recreation<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Publication Date: <\/strong>\u00a02017<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Original Publication Date: <\/strong>\u00a0<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Publisher: <\/strong>\u00a0North Dakota State University Press<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Language: <\/strong>\u00a0English<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Format: <\/strong>\u00a0Hardcover<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Pages: <\/strong>\u00a0178<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Rating: <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Notes: <\/strong>\u00a0Finalist, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book Awards, Autobiography & Memoir and LGBT (Adult Nonfiction). Setting: North Dakota.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Book_ID: <\/strong>\u00a0119067<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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