Romantic relationships, aside from the relationship with her fiance Sue Bird, are blips in the book. There is a stark lack of scene detail in One Life, which can lead it's readers to feel that Rapinoe spends the length of the book keeping them at arm's length. Through 200-plus pages, we never really learn exactly who Megan Rapinoe is. It is the hyperfocus on this goal that takes away from some of the storytelling in the book. Instead, One Life is mostly a call to action - one that follows Rapinoe's own political awakening in the hopes that other people will follow in her footsteps and understand that they have an imperative to speak out about injustice in the world, like she has done. It also doesn't expound much on her relationship with her brother, Brian, who has had a lifelong struggle with opioid addiction. And it won't dwell too much on her childhood in Redding, Calif. We understand from the opening pages that One Life is not mostly about Rapinoe's journey as a soccer player - though it is that. Her memoir, One Life, takes the reader through these events from the inside. She was also the first member of the National Women's Soccer League to come out publicly as gay.Īs an athlete activist, she has gone toe-to-toe with the now-outgoing president and vocally rejected his presidency. And Rapinoe was the first white athlete to kneel in solidarity with Colin Kaepernick in his protest against police brutality and racial injustice.

She declared that if the team won, they would not be going to the Trump White House.

One Life by Megan Rapinoe