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What Made Maddy Run investigates the death by suicide of Penn track athlete Maddison Holleran during her freshman year of college. Columnist for ESPN, author Kate Fagan interviews Maddy's family and friends piecing together what happened the few weeks and month prior to Maddy's death.
Though it's clear the author is writing from a place of compassion and understanding, this book isn't very good. The structure of the book was wonky and was a few hundred pages longer than it needed to be. The author argues that schools need to stock more psychologists for athletes and students, they do, and that the "Split Image" of our social media and personal lives is harmful, it is. However, that's about all she says and doesn't talk about these topics in enough depth.
I'd just recommend reading this article instead of the book: http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/12833146/instagram-account-university-pennsylvania-runner-showed-only-part-story
Though it's clear the author is writing from a place of compassion and understanding, this book isn't very good. The structure of the book was wonky and was a few hundred pages longer than it needed to be. The author argues that schools need to stock more psychologists for athletes and students, they do, and that the "Split Image" of our social media and personal lives is harmful, it is. However, that's about all she says and doesn't talk about these topics in enough depth.
I'd just recommend reading this article instead of the book: http://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/12833146/instagram-account-university-pennsylvania-runner-showed-only-part-story