We Loved to Run

A fearless debut novel about a women’s cross country team and how far girls will push themselves to control their bodies, friendships, and futures“This novel is a wild, brave run through the dark, and the ending might stir you to tears.”—Eric Puchner, New York Times bestselling author of Dream StateWe loved running because it was who we were, who we’d been in high school, who we hoped to be in futures we couldn’t yet imagine. Strong and fast. Fast and strong.

"The heroism of women with a common cause, in a world of men who think they know best, makes for a moving narrative."--Kirkus Reviews
"Reents has written a new kind of campus novel: a funny, inventive, warmhearted portrait of a college cross country team that begins as an insightful exploration of human competitiveness and becomes a moving ode to surviving trauma through female friendship and collective action. This novel is a wild, brave run through the dark, and the ending might stir you to tears."--Eric Puchner, New York Times bestselling author of Dream State
"Pulled tense with all the beauty, strength, and desperation of youth, We Loved to Run is a stunner of a novel. It's as gorgeous and ferocious as the sport at its center, covering miles in the lives of the star runners on a college cross-country team. This book is muscles in motion and hearts spilled out. It's a tribute to what the body can do, what it suffers, and how it survives."--Julia Phillips, bestselling author of Bear and Disappearing Earth
"We Loved to Run is smart, funny, compelling, important, and, best of all maybe, different from other campus novels and other sports novels and other coming-of-age novels, though it is all of those. Stephanie Reents has written the rarest of debuts: one that ensures you'll read everything else she ever writes. I really, really, really loved this novel."--Laurie Frankel, New York Times bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is