'Enter the elite and haunting world of ballet through the eyes of a dancer who has given every rib and finger, every blistered toe to the company. Leap and fall with her, love and starve with her, as she inventories her injuries, her hunger, her cocktail of daily pills, her pointe shoes... as she eavesdrops in the wings of an industry "cattle call", pines after her ballerino, watches her photographed image advertise a show she's no longer dancing in.' (Publication summary)
