Then, on a cold day during Keri's senior year, the police stopped her. From her first taste of heroin, the next nine years would be a blur-living on the streets, digging for a vein, selling drugs and sex, plunging off a bridge when it all became too much, all while trying to hold herself together enough to finish her degree at Cornell.
With all the intensity she saved for the ice, she dove into self-destruction. But when her skating partnership ended abruptly, her world shattered. An electric and unforgettable memoir about a young woman's journey-from the ice rink, to addiction and a prison sentence, to the newsroom-emerging with a fierce determination to expose the broken system she experienced.Īn elite, competitive figure skater growing up, Keri Blakinger poured herself into the sport, even competing at nationals.
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