The Running Body: A Memoir Pifer Emily
The Running Body: A Memoir Pifer Emily A memoir of addiction, body image, and healing, through the lens of a long-distance runner.Emily Pifer's debut memoir, The Running Body, wrestles and reckons…
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The Running Body: A Memoir Pifer Emily
A memoir of addiction, body image, and healing, through the lens of a long-distance runner.Emily Pifer's debut memoir, The Running Body, wrestles and reckons with power and agency, language and story, body dysphoria and beauty standards, desire and addiction, loss and healing. Many around her, including her coaches, praised her for these practices. Pifer employs multiple modes of storytelling--memoir, meditation, and cultural analysis--interweaving research, argument, and experience as she describes how, during her time as a collegiate distance runner, she began to run more while eating less.
Pifer tells her story alongside the stories of her teammates, competitors, and others as they all But as she became faster, and as her body began to resemble the bodies that she had seen across start-lines and on the covers of running magazines, her bones began to fracture.