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J. J. Anselmi is the author of Out Here on Our Own, Doomed to Fail, and Heavy. He grew up riding BMX in Wyoming and now lives with his family in Southern California.
"""Anselmi’s debut novel jumps with a muscular, gritty and graceful grief."" —Antonia Crane, author of Spent ""A unique coming-of-age story set in the hyper-masculine BMX subculture. Anselmi's exploration of sexual identity and confrontation of toxic masculinity is as gnarly as the tricks the riders pull and the trails they ride."" —Jim Ruland, author of Make It Stop and Corporate Rock Sucks ""Through characters that ground us in the literally gritty details of jump building and face-planting, the wooded trails as well as the commercial arenas of freestyle BMX, Anselmi digs deep into the contradictions that define human experience: the relationship between genuine camaraderie and profound cruelty, hyper-masculinity and the complexities of sexual attraction, and the murky frontier bordering landscapes of creativity and destruction."" —John Hales, author of Shooting Polaris"
