{"product_id":"2940173332356","title":"Seeing Serena","description":"\u003cb\u003eA riveting, revealing portrait of tennis champion and global icon Serena Williams that combines\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e biography, cultural criticism, and sports writing to offer \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e“a deep, satisfying meditation” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) on \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe most consequential athlete of her time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere has never been an athlete like Serena Williams. She has dominated women's tennis for two decades, changed the way the game is played, and-by inspiring Naomi Osaka, Coco Gauff, and others-changed, too, the racial makeup of the pro game. But Williams's influence has not been confined to the tennis court. As a powerful Black woman who struggled to achieve and sustain success, she has emerged as a cultural icon, figuring in conversations about body image, working mothers, and more.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeeing Serena\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles Williams's return to tennis after giving birth to her daughter-from her controversial 2018 US Open final against Naomi Osaka through a 2020 season that unfolded against a backdrop of a pandemic and protests over the killing of Black men and women by the police. Gerald Marzorati, who writes about tennis for \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, travels to Wimbledon and to Compton, California, where Serena and her sister Venus learned to play. He talks with former women's tennis greats, sports and cultural commentators-and Serena herself. He observes Williams from courtside, on the red carpet, in fashion magazines, on social media. He sees her and writes about her prismatically-reflecting on her many, many facets.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe result is an “enlightening...keen analysis” (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e) and energetic narrative that illuminates Serena's singular status as the greatest women's tennis player of all time and a Black woman with a global presence like no other.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169968013552,"sku":"2940173332356","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940173332356_p0.jpg?v=1763847772","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940173332356","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}