bibliophileiz 's review for:

The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women's Lives by Kelcey Ervick

4.0

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I have a hard time with graphic novels and probably wouldn't have read this one if it wasn't assigned for a class. But it was so good, great as a memoir and as a book about women's sports history. I definitely want to learn more about some of the earliest soccer (ahem "football" as many of them were in the UK) players like the Dick, Kerr ladies in the early 1900s. Kelcey Ervick clearly did great research, not just into the history of women's sports and Title IX but into her own past, quoting her diaries, her mom's coverage of her games, her coach's video tapes of their team's triumphs. And most of all I loved the end of Chapter 13, which is the real end of the book. (The chapter after is more of an epilogue.) Without going into spoilers, the last page encapsulates everything she's achieved and everything women are capable of.