Headshot

Headshot is the story of the eight best teenage girl boxers in the United States, told over the two days of a championship tournament and structured as a series of face-offs. As the girls' pasts and futures collide, the specific joy and violence of the sport comes to life with electric energy, and a portrait emerges of the desire, envy, perfectionism, madness and sheer physical pleasure that motivates each of these young women to fight. For readers of Kathryn Scanlan's Kick the Latch, Leanne Shapton's Swimming Studies, Chetna Maroo's Western Lane, Dizz Tait's Brutes, Saba Sams's Send Nudes, and Daphne Palasi Andreades' Brown Girls