A book to tread through lightly and with care. A true story of Tillie’s adolescent life, Spinning resonates with anyone who has felt unseen through what we’ve been told are our ‘prime’ years of life. Tillie grapples with her complicated love/hate relationship with figure skating and what it means to be queer in a sport that feels hetero-cis-normative, and so she falls in love with the idea of leaving in order to pursue what she truly loves. It is beautiful yet heartbreaking to sit beside Tillie unraveling trauma she never spoke of. I will forever feel lucky to live in the same lifetime as her.
