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New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
World champion runner Caster Semenya offers an empowering account of her extraordinary life and career, and her trailblazing battle to compete on her own terms.
Trade Review"Caster’s story isn’t just a tale of perseverance and poise, it’s a story that makes us all interrogate our humanity and the world we build with our actions every day. An essential read." -- Trevor Noah
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The Race to Be Myself is Semenya’s unburdening about that time, when she became a figure onto which the world projected all of its opinions about gender in sports… Semenya breaks her long silence, calling out her critics and asserting her right to be celebrated for her natural gifts, as other athletes are, rather than punished for them." -- Jenn A. Miller - New York Times Book Review
"Revelatory." -- New York Times
"[A]ffecting… This chronicle of supreme resilience will resonate even with non–sports fans." -- Publishers Weekly
"Told with candor, Semenya’s story reminds readers to treat all humans with dignity and that being different does not mean being wrong." -- Booklist (starred review)
"A furiously proud memoir.... Moving, inspiring testimony by a woman facing hardship merely "because of a biological condition I was born with."" -- Kirkus Reviews
"A gripping, provocative book." -- Library Journal (starred review)
