Rae Meadows

Perfection has a cost…

- “A gemlike novel," The New York Times Book Review

- A Good Morning America Buzz Pick

- Indie Next Pick, American Booksellers Association

- Ten Noteworthy Books for November, The Washington Post

- Most Anticipated Books of November, Bustle

- November's Ten Best books, The Christian Science Monitor

- Noteworthy New Books, The Cleveland Plain Dealer

- Booklist starred review

"Both a searingly immersive tale and an important book for our times, Winterland is a must-read."

— Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names
"Meadows paints a poignant portrait of life behind the Iron Curtain, palpably conveying her vividly rendered characters’ deprivation, longing, and self-sacrifice."

— Publishers Weekly
"A story as gripping as it is a powerful rendering of the true cost of perfection [ ... ] I was left breathless."

— Lara Prescott, New York Times bestselling author of The Secrets We Kept
"Heart-breaking and thought-provoking [...] a story of unfolding friendship and adversity that will linger with readers for long afterwards."

— Yangsze Choo, New York Times bestselling author of The Night Tiger
"Rae Meadows always writes with absolute clarity and power [...] weightless, strong, and capable of anything."

— Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author All Adults Here
"Winterland gripped me from the first page."

— Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward
"…a genre-bender that fluently integrates sports with accents from political and psychological thrillers."

— Library Journal
"An enlightening portrait of a now-vanished world."

— Kirkus
"With meticulous precision and smart, poetic prose, Meadows vaults us into the chilling and eerily relevant world of Soviet-era gymnastics."

— Georgia Hunter, New York Times bestselling author of We Were The Lucky Ones

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I’m Rae Meadows, author of five novels including the forthcoming WINTERLAND.