The Chronicles of Mad Maxine tells one woman's story of training to be a lady wrestler at the Fabulous Moolah's School of Professional Wrestling.
The novel, set on the 30-acre training camp in Columbia, South Carolina, is a fictionalized account of author Jeannine Mjoseth 's experiences in the mid-1980s, when she became skilled at flying head scissors, the soaring suplex and the body slam.
Both hardcore wrestling fans and people who've never seen a ma.