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Dec 05, 2017KateHillier rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Tillie is a figure skater. Her life is dominated by early mornings, group dynamics with both girls and moms, and finding a place in the new skating culture when she moves to Texas at age 12. Tillie isn't happy with skating, with school, with her family life, with being closeted. There's a lot for her to overcome and accept (or not accept as being any form of her fault) and skating is the nexus of it all. The coming of age story and the art reminds me a lot of This One Summer but that's where the exact similarities end. It's a familiar story in the fact that the reader can relate and you have read versions of this before but it's still a journey worth taking.