Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2025Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2024Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2025A Book of the Year for the New York Times, Guardian, Irish Times, New Statesman, Independent, Telegraph, GQ and The TimesOn Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List 2024Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction Best DebutHeadshot is the story of the eight best teenage girl boxers in the United States, told over the two days of a championship tournament and structured as a series of face-offs. As the girls’ pasts and futures collide, the specific joy and violence of the sport comes to life with electric energy, and a portrait emerges of the desire, envy, perfectionism, madness and sheer physical pleasure that motivates each of these young women to fight.This is a novel about the radicalness and strangeness of being physically intimate with another human when you are measur