A review by jarshi
Spinning by Tillie Walden

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

Now I understand the extreme lows and highs of middle grade youth competitive ice skating. Seriously, I didn’t expect this book to hit me emotionally the way it did. The fact that it started off simply talking about mundane adolescent life things and just… escalated into, “Wow, your parents were kind of assholes, you were going through really tough times mentally, and you experienced some really dark, traumatic shit.” 

I hope she got therapy for real.