Ariane Beeston critiques ballet’s toxic culture in new YA novel, Don’t Forget to Smile

“It felt like a pleasure to be able to make things up,” Ariane Beeston says of writing her first work of fiction, the young adult novel Don’t Forget to Smile. Beeston had previously written an acclaimed non-fiction work, Because I’m Not Myself, You See, about her experiences with postpartum psychosis. “Following such an intense, traumatic…

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