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# Off Balance

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    Solid Memoir - Answers Questions for Fans and Makes People Think
  

*by J***E on Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2012*

A memoir is the story of a person's life and their experiences and no one should be entitled to review that.  Accordingly, this review focuses only on how the information is presented and whether the audience of potential buyers would take an interest in it.As fans of celebrities we pick up on a person during or after their major achievements.  In the case of Moceanu (for most) this would be 1996 when she and the U.S. Woman's team won a gold medal in the team competition for gymnastics.  She was just 14 years old.  I assumed it took a lot of hard work to get there, and that the path was not easy.  I also assumed that it was a childhood lost and replaced with the hard work and determination of an adult.  This book certainly confirms these theories.  I feel I can write this without it being a real spoiler for anyone.We (the public) see the glorious results and have some appreciation for how difficult it is to achieve the results, but no true understanding.  This memoir humanizes Moceanu's achievements and it does it in an incredibly well thought out and touching way.  For example, most fans knew her family was Romanian - but probably few considered what that truly meant.  It meant that Moceanu is a first generation American who came from a poor family of immigrants... a family which had a financially unsteady situation.  It may be hard enough to achieve greatness, but it is even harder living in a two-bedroom apartment with your parents, sister and grandparents.  Most great gymnasts tend to be on the small side, but have any fans considered what it is like to be the smallest person in your class selected last to play a sport in gym class, have a funny sounding name and come to school with food that is unlike your classmates' food at lunch time?  No one imagines the small tiny hardships that add up to a difficult life when they see a girl and a gold medal on a podium in front of the entire world.  This memoir helps you to relate to Moceanu as a human - a young girl who faced kids in school as cruel as the ones you went to school with, but she faced them with much more adversity than most of us did in our own lives.It is a poorly kept secret that elite child athletes often face abuse (which comes in multiple forms:  physical, mental, emotional).  Gymnastics seems to be particularly notorious for this.  What I appreciate about this memoir is that it reads like someone trying to tell a story as a way of explaining their life...  and not like someone who has an ax to grind.  Many memoirs are "grinding axes" in disguise, but fortunately this does not come off as one of them in my opinion.Moceanu does a great job reflecting on what was great in her childhood and what she appreciated about her life as well as noting things she has set out to change about her own children's childhood.  It also brings an additional remarkable component about her lost sister and how the discovery altered everything she knew and perceived about her family which, frankly, was already enough for ten lifetimes!If I had one criticism of the book it is the way in which the chronology was broken up to weave past and current together (i.e. the story of her lost sister).  It was awkward to follow and I think the reader's feeling of being disjointed outweighed what Moceanu was probably going for by doing it.  This is a small issue mentioned only because no product review should fail to mention "the negative".The story is remarkable and inspiring, there is no question of that.  It is told well and with great detail that takes a lot of courage to share with other human beings (let alone publish in a book).  You do feel that you are a better person for having understood the path someone else experienced in life and the challenges they faced and the lessons they learned.  You can not ask for more after reading a memoir.  Highly recommended.

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    Outstanding!
  

*by A***R on Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2016*

I got into Gymnastics a couple of weeks before, and I got delightful for Dominique, her performances and story, and I really got more intereted on it. So I decided to buy her book, to know more about her story and herself, and I have to say I really fulfilled my expectations about it. It's a captivating book, very dynamic and full of details, no letting any hole between. I really loved the book. There were times I couldn't stop reading at very late hours at night, and I had to force myself to go to sleep to continue the next day. I felt I could know Dominique much better than talking face to face with her and I'm really thankful to her for letting me and others know her more, by sharing their feelings, emotions, thoughts and the most toughest moments that she had to face on these years of her life. I have a lot of more things to say, yet to keep this comment brief I want to say that I admire you for being such a great person and fighter. Thank you very much for this!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Incredible story!
  

*by I***E on Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2017*

I have a lot of respect for Dominique Moceanu for her honestly in this book.  I've read it several times and am always appalled and disgusted by the brutal treatment she received at the hands of the Karolyis. I believe every word of what she says she endured.  She's come out of her experiences a pretty amazing woman and it sounds like she's found much happiness as an adult.  The part about finding her sister Jen is incredible as well!  The book is well written and I highly recommend it to any gymnastics fan or reader of memoirs!

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