- Published: 7 June 2022
- ISBN: 9780593241370
- Imprint: Random House US Group
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 416
- RRP: $59.99
Brace for Impact
A Memoir
- Published: 7 June 2022
- ISBN: 9780593241370
- Imprint: Random House US Group
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 416
- RRP: $59.99
“Brace for Impact is a universal story of healing and triumph, made all the more beautiful, wild, and free by Gabe Montesanti’s fierce love for roller derby and her team, who become her family. Our world urgently needs brave, bold voices like Gabe’s, the voices of those who are figuring out how to feel, find acceptance, and become who they were to meant to be.”—Abby Wambach, Olympian, activist, and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wolfpack “Brace for Impact helped me know myself better. The way Gabe Montesanti writes about her instinct to be gentle toward others yet strict, regimented, and disciplined toward herself is beautiful, bold, and utterly relatable to me as a queer person, as a person who has struggled to love, accept, and value my body, and as a onetime serious athlete from the Midwest. Most of all, Gabe’s story made me want to join roller derby, know the people she skates with, and push myself to try new things. Reading this book is the next best thing to being out on the track.”—Cameron Esposito, bestselling author of Save Yourself