What made Maddy run : the secret struggles and tragic death of an all-American teen / Kate Fagan.
2017
616.858445 F151w 2017
Available at 2nd (Main) Floor
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Title
What made Maddy run : the secret struggles and tragic death of an all-American teen / Kate Fagan.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780316356541
0316356549
0316356549
Published
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
Language
English
Description
xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number
616.858445 F151w 2017
System Control No.
(OCoLC)994154326
(OCoLC)994154326
(OCoLC)994154326
Summary
A sports journalist relates the story of Ivy League freshman and track star Maddy Holleran, who seemingly had it all and succeeded at everything she tried, but who secretly grappled with mental illness before taking her own life during the spring semester.
"From noted ESPN commentator and journalist Kate Fagan, the heartbreaking and vital story of college athlete Madison Holleran, whose death by suicide rocked the University of Pennsylvania campus and whose life reveals with haunting detail and uncommon understanding the struggle of young people suffering from mental illness today. If you scrolled through the Instagram feed of 19-year-old Maddy Holleran, you would see a perfect life: a freshman at an Ivy League school, recruited for the track team, who was also beautiful, popular, and fiercely intelligent. This was a girl who succeeded at everything she tried, and who was only getting started. But when Maddy began her long-awaited college career, her parents noticed something was different. Previously indefatigable, Maddy became withdrawn, and her thoughts centered on how she could change her life. In spite of thousands of hours of practice and study, she contemplated transferring from the school that had once been her dream. When Maddy's dad, Jim, dropped her off for the first day of spring semester, she held him a second longer than usual. That would be the last time Jim would see his daughter. What Made Maddy Run began as a piece that Kate Fagan, a columnist for espnW, wrote about Maddy and her experience. What started as a profile of a successful young athlete whose life ended in suicide became so much larger when Fagan started to hear from other college athletes also grappling with mental illness. This is the story of Maddy Holleran and her struggle with depression, but it also reveals the mounting pressures young people, and college athletes in particular, face to be perfect, especially in an age of relentless connectivity and social-media saturation."--Jacket.
"From noted ESPN commentator and journalist Kate Fagan, the heartbreaking and vital story of college athlete Madison Holleran, whose death by suicide rocked the University of Pennsylvania campus and whose life reveals with haunting detail and uncommon understanding the struggle of young people suffering from mental illness today. If you scrolled through the Instagram feed of 19-year-old Maddy Holleran, you would see a perfect life: a freshman at an Ivy League school, recruited for the track team, who was also beautiful, popular, and fiercely intelligent. This was a girl who succeeded at everything she tried, and who was only getting started. But when Maddy began her long-awaited college career, her parents noticed something was different. Previously indefatigable, Maddy became withdrawn, and her thoughts centered on how she could change her life. In spite of thousands of hours of practice and study, she contemplated transferring from the school that had once been her dream. When Maddy's dad, Jim, dropped her off for the first day of spring semester, she held him a second longer than usual. That would be the last time Jim would see his daughter. What Made Maddy Run began as a piece that Kate Fagan, a columnist for espnW, wrote about Maddy and her experience. What started as a profile of a successful young athlete whose life ended in suicide became so much larger when Fagan started to hear from other college athletes also grappling with mental illness. This is the story of Maddy Holleran and her struggle with depression, but it also reveals the mounting pressures young people, and college athletes in particular, face to be perfect, especially in an age of relentless connectivity and social-media saturation."--Jacket.
Formatted Contents Note
Foreword / by Alison Overholt
Shattered
In real life
August 23, 2013
The collapse
Mind, body, spirit
Vacuum
Active minds
Just sleep
All alone
Size nothing
Snow falling
The quitting game
The meeting
Dreamscapes
The picture
Anticipation
Spruce and 15th
The rules of suicide
Shattered II.
Shattered
In real life
August 23, 2013
The collapse
Mind, body, spirit
Vacuum
Active minds
Just sleep
All alone
Size nothing
Snow falling
The quitting game
The meeting
Dreamscapes
The picture
Anticipation
Spruce and 15th
The rules of suicide
Shattered II.
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