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Honoured with the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2023, listed as a New York Times Bestseller, and recognized as a Financial Times Best Book of the Year 2023, “Good for a Girl” is a heartfelt homage to the world of running, a candid personal account of transformation and resilience, and an empowering testament to the often overlooked journey of female athletes.
Lauren Fleshman, one of the most acclaimed collegiate athletes and a national champion turned coach for emerging female runners, shares her insightful perspective on how our sports systems simultaneously hinder and support young women and girls.
“Good for a Girl” elegantly fuses memoir and manifesto, recounting Fleshman’s own journey of falling for running as a young girl, overcoming crippling injuries and self-doubt, and her courageous endeavor to advocate for a more equitable environment for female athletes.
Malcolm Gladwell endorses, “Women’s sports have needed a manifesto for a long time. With Good for a Girl, we finally have one.” The Times praises Fleshman’s ability to merge “a sporting manifesto while also being a fine and engaging writer… There is a raw honesty at the heart of Good for a Girl.”
Adharanand Finn, author of “The Rise of the Ultra Runners,” insists that it “Needs to be read by anyone involved in women’s sport,” while Kate Fagan, author of “What Made Maddy Run,” declares, “This is the book we’ve been waiting for.”
Emily Oster, the bestselling author of “Crib Sheet,” describes it as “A call to action in how we think about girls and women in elite sports,” and Olympian Alysia Montano, co-founder of &Mother and author of “Feel-Good Fitness,” sees it as “The invitation to have a long overdue conversation for a long overdue cultural shift.”
“Good for a Girl” was proclaimed the winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year on