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In
Kenya the pool was green and surrounded by concrete so hot it burnt the
soles of her small feet. She didn't know any different. A decade later
she would be double British Champion and the first Black women ever to
swim for Great Britain. But this story is not about making history.
As
her body and mind are sharpened through gruelling training, press
scrutiny, and the harshness of adolescence, Rebecca questions who she is
swimming for, and what the onward journey to the Olympics will cost
her.
A compulsive and unforgettable study of intensity, These Heavy Black Bones
meditates on Blackness, identity, and the ecstasy of peak physical
performance. In stunning prose, Rebecca charts her careers's ascent, her
singular love of the water, and lays bare the pressures within her
swimming world.
In
Kenya the pool was green and surrounded by concrete so hot it burnt the
soles of her small feet. She didn't know any different. A decade later
she would be double British Champion and the first Black women ever to
swim for Great Britain. But this story is not about making history.
As
her body and mind are sharpened through gruelling training, press
scrutiny, and the harshness of adolescence, Rebecca questions who she is
swimming for, and what the onward journey to the Olympics will cost
her.
A compulsive and unforgettable study of intensity, These Heavy Black Bones
meditates on Blackness, identity, and the ecstasy of peak physical
performance. In stunning prose, Rebecca charts her careers's ascent, her
singular love of the water, and lays bare the pressures within her
swimming world.