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MOTORCYCLES I'VE LOVED
A powerful memoir about a young woman who discovers the power and allure of motorcycles—outsmarting small-minded grease monkeys, faulty brakes, and her own doubts—as she reshapes her identity and forges her own path.
At twenty-one-years-old, Lily Brooks-Dalton is broke, directionless, and back in her native New England after three-and-a-half years working her way around the world. Abruptly cut off from the support system she’d had abroad, and anxious about a future that seems uncertain, she spends her days shuffling between an unfulfilling job and a temporary home filled with endlessly partying college students.
When a friend starts shopping for a motorcycle, Brooks-Dalton is intrigued, and before long she finds herself diving headlong into the world of gearheads, channeling all her energy towards a quest for the perfect ride. At first, these big, roaring machines offer a diversion and some toughness, a way to be seen as more powerful than her petite, feminine frame suggests. But what she finds as she learns to ride and maintain her own motorcycles is more than she ever expected.
Forced to confront her limitations—new and old, real and imagined—Brooks-Dalton discovers focus, patience, and how to fearlessly navigate male-dominated life on the road. Along the way she discovers her mother's motorcycling past and begins to understand her inherited passion for speed and how much it’s shaped her identity, both as a rider and as a woman. As she builds confidence, both on her bike and off, she begins to find her way forward, ultimately undertaking an epic journey that leaves her changed, strengthened, and prepared for whatever comes next.
Honest and lyrical, raw and thoughtful, Motorcycles I’ve Loved is a bold portrait of one young woman’s empowering journey towards confidence, independence and her own, wide-open road.
Lily Brooks-Dalton was born in southern Vermont. She bought her first motorcycle at twenty-one, and has owned three other bikes since then. She currently lives in western Massachusetts.
When a friend starts shopping for a motorcycle, Brooks-Dalton is intrigued, and before long she finds herself diving headlong into the world of gearheads, channeling all her energy towards a quest for the perfect ride. At first, these big, roaring machines offer a diversion and some toughness, a way to be seen as more powerful than her petite, feminine frame suggests. But what she finds as she learns to ride and maintain her own motorcycles is more than she ever expected.
Forced to confront her limitations—new and old, real and imagined—Brooks-Dalton discovers focus, patience, and how to fearlessly navigate male-dominated life on the road. Along the way she discovers her mother's motorcycling past and begins to understand her inherited passion for speed and how much it’s shaped her identity, both as a rider and as a woman. As she builds confidence, both on her bike and off, she begins to find her way forward, ultimately undertaking an epic journey that leaves her changed, strengthened, and prepared for whatever comes next.
Honest and lyrical, raw and thoughtful, Motorcycles I’ve Loved is a bold portrait of one young woman’s empowering journey towards confidence, independence and her own, wide-open road.
Lily Brooks-Dalton was born in southern Vermont. She bought her first motorcycle at twenty-one, and has owned three other bikes since then. She currently lives in western Massachusetts.
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Published 2015-04-07 by Riverhead |
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Published 2015-04-07 by Riverhead |