*has slight crease in cover due to hastily moving, but otherwise excellent condition! To Daya Wijesinghe, a bruise is a mixture of comfort and control. Since her parents died in an accident she survived, bruises have become a way to keep her pain on the surface of her skin so that she doesn’t need to deal with the ache deep in her heart. When chance and circumstances bring her to a roller derby bout, Daya is hooked. Yes the rules are confusing, and the sport seems to require the kind of teamwork and human interaction she generally avoids. But the opportunities to bruise are countless, and Daya realizes that if she’s going to keep her emotional pain at bay, she’ll need all the opportunities she can get. The deeper she immerses herself in the world the roller derby, the more she realizes it’s not the physical pain fest she was hoping for her rough and tumble teammates and their fans push her limits in Waze she never imagined bringing her to big truths about love, loss, strength and healing

ISBN: 9781534455023