Godspeed: A Memoir Legler Casey Pevná vazba
This haunting and electric coming of age memoir charts Casey Legler's broken childhood--from swimming in the Olympics at eighteen while facing crippling loneliness, to her descent into drug addiction,…
Specifikacia Godspeed: A Memoir Legler Casey Pevná vazba
This haunting and electric coming of age memoir charts Casey Legler's broken childhood--from swimming in the Olympics at eighteen while facing crippling loneliness, to her descent into drug addiction, and a desperate penchant for self-destruction that almost took her life--all while grappling with undiagnosed Autism.As a little girl, Casey Legler scrawls on a piece of paper two phrases that she folds and keeps with her: Never let people know what you are thinking and Loving is not allowed. Desperate for connection, even as a child, she follows her older sister to swim team practice where, upon her first dive into the water, she discovers a powerful, innate athleticism.Her raw talent plunges her into a life of further isolation--a life of cheap hotels and chlorine-stung skin, anonymous sexual encounters and escalating drug use. Even at what should have been a