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. 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. Many around her, including her coaches, praised her
for these practices. 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. Pifer tells her story alongside the stories of her
teammates, competitors, and others as they all face trouble
regarding their bodies. Through the lens of long-distance running,
Pifer examines the effects of idolization and obsession, revealing
the porous boundaries between what counts as success and what is
considered failure. While grounded in truth, The Running Body
interrogates its relationship to magical thinking, the stories we
tell ourselves, and the faultiness of memory. Fractures, figurative
and literal, run through the narrative as Pifer explores the ways
bodies become entangled in stories. The Running Body was selected
by Steve Almond as the winner of the 2021 Autumn House Nonfiction
Prize.
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