What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

by Kate Fagan
What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

by Kate Fagan

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Overview

The heartbreaking story of college athlete Madison Holleran, whose life and death by suicide reveal the struggle of young people suffering from mental illness today in this #1 New York Times Sports and Fitness bestseller.

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 changed. Previously indefatigable Maddy became withdrawn, and her thoughts centered on how she could change her life.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's life. 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 struggling with mental illness.

This is the story of Maddy Holleran's life, and her struggle with depression, which 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780316356534
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication date: 08/01/2017
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 141,700
File size: 18 MB
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About the Author

Kate Fagan is an Emmy award-winning journalist and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Made Maddy Run, which was longlisted for the PEN/ESPN Award. She currently works for Meadowlark Media and writes for Sports Illustrated, and previously spent seven years as a columnist and feature writer for espnW, ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. She lives in Charleston, South Carolina with her wife, Kathryn Budig, and their two dogs.

Table of Contents

Foreword Alison Overholt ix

Author's Note 3

Chapter 1 Shattered 5

In Real Life 22

Chapter 2 August 23, 2013 39

Chapter 3 The Collapse 63

Mind, Body, Spirit 78

Chapter 4 Vacuum 92

Active Minds 108

Chapter 5 Just Sleep 123

All Alone 137

Chapter 6 Size Nothing 151

Chapter 7 Snow Falling 168

The Quitting Game 189

Chapter 8 The Meeting 204

Dreamscapes 232

Chapter 9 The Picture 235

Anticipation 243

Chapter 10 Spruce and 15th 257

The Rules of Suicide 279

Chapter 11 Shattered II 290

Acknowledgments 301

Resources 303

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