My book is personal memoir spanning 43 years, told in 63 chapters and 90,000 words. Below is the dust jacket synopsis, written in third person because that's how you do it. I am actively seeking literary representation, and inquiries are welcome. I'd love to share the manuscript. Thanks for your support!
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Author Tony Piff grew up in a religious household so loving and stable that he never really learned to fear danger. Perhaps that’s why he embraced BMX freestyle as a 1980s schoolboy. Well down the traditional path modeled for him — college, career, marriage, kids — the path itself crumbled, taking Piff’s worldview and deepest core beliefs with it. But he never stopped riding. And from the rubble of his failures — betrayal, divorce, getting fired for plagiarism — he and his ex-wife forged a new path together, a new committed partnership unlike anything either of them had ever seen.
CONCRETE DESTINIES: A BMX MEMOIR tells the 40-year story of Piff’s passion for little bicycles, from jumping curb cuts as a child to grinding urban handrails as a teenager to middle-age dirtbag roadtrips hunting for concrete skateparks and underground fullpipes. His account reveals the history and esoteric joys of this little-understood subculture with cinematic immediacy and a minimum of jargon and is a time-capsule chronology of four decades of Americana.
Piff traces the evolution of his insecurities, shortcomings and aspirations with unflinching honesty and wry humor. As he and his ex — two profoundly incompatible, profoundly flawed people — face a never-ending barrage of hardships and calamities, the story that emerges is a redemption tale as inspiring and original as it is relatable, illustrating what it looks like to embrace the responsibilities and satisfactions of adulthood while pursuing our lifelong passions.
