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On Top of Glass: My Stories as a Queer Girl in Figure Skating

By Karina Manta
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Hardcover edition

Publisher Penguin Random House Imprint Knopf ISBN

9780593308462

On Top of Glass: My Stories as a Queer Girl in Figure Skating

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Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Marijuana Use,Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco: Underage Use,Medical: Eating Disorder,Sexual Content: Mild Sexual Content/Themes

An insightful memoir from a figure skating champion about her life as a bisexual professional athlete, perfect for readers of Fierce by Aly Raisman and Forward by Abby Wambach.



Karina Manta has had a busy few years: Not only did she capture the hearts of many with her fan-favorite performance at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, she also became the first female figure skater on Team USA to come out as queer. Her Modern Love essay “I Can’t Hate My Body if I Love Hers” was published in the New York Times, and then she joined the circus—Cirque du Soleil’s on-ice show, AXEL.



Karina’s memoir covers these experiences and much more. Attending a high school with 4,000 students, you’d expect to know more than two openly gay students, but Karina didn’t meet an out-lesbian until she was nearly seventeen—let alone any other kind of queer woman. But this isn’t just a story about her queerness. It’s also a story about her struggle with body image in a sport that prizes delicate femininity. It’s a story about panic attacks, and first crushes, and all the crushes that followed, and it’s a story about growing up, feeling different than everybody around her and then realizing that everyone else felt different too.
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