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• Annotation:
• A graphic memoir of the twelve years Walden spent as a competitive figure and synchronized skater. The memoir attempts to capture the experience of growing up in the environment of ice skating, coming out, and coming to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know.
• Creator:
• Author - Walden Tillie
• Publication Information:
• First Second, New York, 2017
• Color or Black & White:
• 
• Genre:
• Autobiography/Memoir
• Bibliography Available:
• No
• Original Language:
• English
• Historical Topic/Event:
• Memoir
• Geographic Setting:
• New Jersey
• Texas
• Date Range:
• 2000 - 2012
• Tags:
• skating, lesbianism, sexual assault, coming out (sexual orientation)
• Notes:
• • Find this book on WorldCat

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