This started out a promising book - a behind the scenes look at elite gymnastics. What it turned into was some of that and then the author saying repeatedly, my family sacrificed everything for me and that was perfectly normal followed by my family wouldnt let me quit when I wanted to so I cut them out of my life. She just came across as petulant. She kept talking about how much stress she was under, how driven she was to succeed without her parents pushing her and how she abused her body to make it to the top. But then she never seeemed to take real responsibility for her destruction other than to say I wanted to hurt myself on purpose to get out of it but when I did that I only performed better and better! Her refusal to eat became less about her need to control and more about her mother not paying attention to her signals and not saving her and then competing with her. I suppose I wanted to hear her feel accountable for her life and her drive. I suppose I hoped as an adult she would be more aware and that became disappointing for me as the book wore on.