The Tonya Harding Fan Club
After the attack on the ice skater Nancy Kerrigan, Susan Orlean reported on the knee-clubbing scandal that preceded the 1994 Winter Olympics and implicated Harding’s ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, and Shawn Eckhardt and Shane Stant.
Orlean finds Harding's most devoted fans in working-class Portland—people who see themselves in her struggle, her rough edges, her refusal to apologize.