Roller Babes

Author: Tim Patten

Genre: Young Adult Fiction,

Traits: Motivation, LGBTQ, Biographical Fiction, Sports

Language: English

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Roller Babes, an LGBT fiction novel by Tim Patten, will make you relive all those sweet and salty first feelings of those befuddling years- the teenage.

Written as a tribute to the Roller Babes of 1950’s Roller Derby game- Lottie Zimmerman is the clichéd outcast Tomboy, who grows as a woman and rises as a Roller Derby player, achieving her dreams.

Based on a real life woman Loretta Behrens- Lottie is a Jew, friends with Ruby, a black woman and lesbian. One television relay of Roller Derby changes her life by lighting her fire for the new sport- she becomes friends, gets bullied, dreams, hopes, loves and wins.

The narrative gives the real flavour of 1950’s American society: with an exposition of societal hypocrisy, racism, sexism, anti-Semitism, white supremacism and homophobia. From Ku Klux Klan to Cuban political strife, the general scenario of those times is neatly presented in the novel.

Conformity to gender roles is questioned subtly, with Lottie’s situation as a doubly marginalised Jewish girl and her thoughts of redemption in conflict with constant demotivation by her father and the bullies. The description of scenes on the field though, are full of fire and adrenaline, and some of the best in the novel.

Read it if you’d like to know about the struggle of women after the Suffragist Movement and before the 60’s revolution or if you'd like to relive your raw teenage years.

R/W Rating: 6/10

Goodreads Rating: 4.53/5 
(As on date of publishing of post.)

Reviewed by: @psychedelicstargazer

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