Status Updates From The Hero's Body: A Memoir

Motorcycles and grief. Intimate.

Finished Book I.

How is it to make a machine out of your body, at eighteen? Billy goes the Homeric way, which is against the Christian tenet that the body is frail and shall remain so. But the cultivation of the mind is not missing.

Beautifully written. Fascinating pages about building muscle, steroids and gyms, and the effects on a young man's psychology and lyrical self. About why they were doing it and how an Italian family of men never complimented each other.