I do think female ambition is viewed by the culture at large. And my difficulty in framing an answer tells you how intertwined they feel to me. What draws you toward writing about these two meaty topics in a way that connects them to one another and yet also distances them from each other? You mine ambition and madness, both on the part of Devon, the Olympic hopeful, as well as her parents and her coaches. It’s about the things that lie in the shadows.
Before long, the story was just unfurling for me and I started writing.īut this isn’t a book about superficiality. There’s never a simple answer to how invested parents should be in their children’s development, but with exceptionally talented children, these questions become trickier. Some people found it funny, others found it problematic, or worse. The online response to it was all over the place. They were so invested in it, so connected to her.
Then, during the London Olympics in 2012, I saw this viral video of the parents of American gymnast Aly Raisman watching their daughter’s routine and it kind of blew me away.
How, or if, one can separate the child’s drive from the parents’. I’ve always been fascinated by the families of prodigies.
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