cover design by Michelle Argyle of Melissa Williams Design
From Moxie Road Productions
When Janine Kovac gives birth to micro preemie twins nearly four months before they are due, she channels the grace and strength that carried her through a successful ballet career. The human body has amazing healing powers if you just know how to listen to it.
But old habits bring up old haunts and bitter memories—the futile quest for perfection and a career-ending injury. In the sterile, fluorescent world of the NICU, ballet breeds hope as the twins make a miraculous recovery.
Can it also bring resolution to the dancer so many years after the abrupt and painful end to the career she loved so much?
Spinning was a semi-finalist for Publishers Weekly’s BookLife Prize, a finalist for the Eyelands Awards and the 2019 winner of the National Indie Excellence Awards in the Pregnancy and Childbirth category.
Praise for SPINNING
“A tremendous book: a thrilling find for any reader and a tour-de-force for the author.”
“Janine Kovac’s memoir, written with a fresh and engaging voice, will grab you by the heart and won’t let go until the very end. What a ride! Brava!”
“A deft and moving exploration of fear, strength, and the ways in which our past lives are always catching up with our present. Janine Kovac weaves her terrifying introduction to motherhood and her career as a professional ballerina as naturally and masterfully as if she’s choreographed a new dance. And she has.”
“Janine Kovac has written a beautiful, honest book about what it means to live in a body, the triumphs and dangers of dancing, the deep joy and sadness of becoming a mother to twins born far too soon. I devoured this book in a single morning, wanting to know what life would unveil for this family. You will too and the story will stay with you for a long, long time after you close the book and breathe again.”
“I loved Spinning from the first page. Janine Kovac artfully weaves her past as a professional ballet dancer with the story of the premature birth of her twin sons. ‘The human body has amazing healing powers if you just know how to listen to it,’ writes Kovac. Spinning is both a testament to the miracle of the human body and to the ways that deep listening allows us to heal and pull meaning from our lives.”
