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Solo - A Memoir of Hope (Paperback)
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Solo - A Memoir of Hope (Paperback)
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My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or
frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to
expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.
Hope Solo is the face of the modern female athlete. She is
fearless, outspoken, and the best in the world at what she does:
protecting the goal of the U.S. women's soccer team. Her outsized
talent has led her to the pinnacle of her sport - the Olympics and
the World Cup - and made her into an international celebrity who is
just as likely to appear on ABC's Dancing with the Stars as she is
on the covers of Sports Illustrated, ESPN The Magazine, and Vogue.
But her journey - which began in Richland, Washington, where she
was raised by her strong-willed mother on the scorched earth of
defunct nuclear testing sites - is similarly haunted by the fallout
of her family history. Her father, a philanderer and con man, was
convicted of embezzlement when Solo was an infant. She lost touch
with him as he drifted out of prison and into homelessness. By the
time they reunited, years later, in the parking lot of a grocery
store, she was an All-American goalkeeper at the University of
Washington and already a budding prospect for the U.S. national
team. He was living in the woods. Despite harboring serious doubts
even about the provenance of her father's last name (and her own),
Solo embraces him as fiercely as she pursues her dreams of being a
world-class soccer player. When those dreams are threatened by her
standing within the national team, as when she was famously benched
in the semifinals of the 2007 World Cup after four shutouts and
spoke her piece publicly, we see a woman of uncompromising
independence and hard-won perseverance navigate the petty backlash
against her. For the first time, she tells her version of that
controversial episode, and offers with it a full understanding of
her hard-scrabble life. Moving, sometimes shocking, Solo is a
portrait of an athlete finding redemption. This is the Hope Solo
whom few have ever glimpsed.
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