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Layne Fargo, 2025
A fictional oral history of two ice dancers whose obsessive partnership becomes a legend—and a scandal—told by the people who watched them burn.
Layne Fargo
Fargo structures the novel as an oral history—interview transcripts, archival footage and quoted memories—so the reader meets the couple through other people.
Feels like passion, love and ambition.
Two teenagers carve their names as if the future were furniture.
Shaw & Rocha, the carving read when he finished. It was the way our names would be written on the scoreboard at our first U.S. Figure Skating Championships in a few days’ time. The way they’d be announced in medal ceremonies and reported in newspapers and entered in the record books. We’d cut the letters into the center of my antique rosewood headboard, deep enough that no amount of sanding could remove them. Books by Layne Fargo
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