Kim's Reviews > The Race to Be Myself: Young Readers Edition

A powerful and accessible memoir from Caster Semenya about her childhood, her passion for athletics, the organization that tried to tell her that she was not a female, and her determination to prove them wrong. I appreciated all of the photos interspersed in the text, although one (showing her with her parents on her 21st birthday) is incorrectly labeled 2010 rather than 2012. This may cause confusion since the chapter in which it appears talks about events in 2010 when she was nineteen. I also appreciated the way she wove in the racial injustice that she dealt with. I knew very little about this two-time Olympic champion. Her perseverance is an inspiration, and her memoir is timely as gender testing for differences in sex development continues to be a hot topic.