LITERATURE

Motorcycles I've Loved

by Lily Brooks-Dalton
Riverhead. Apr. 2015. 256p. ISBN 9781594633218. $27.95; ebk. ISBN 9780698164574. MEMOIR
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When Brooks-Dalton goads her friend into purchasing a motorcycle and finds out later that it is ill-equipped to carry a passenger, she realizes that she doesn't want to ride on the back of a hog anyway: she wants to be the one driving it. The author, adrift after years of traveling abroad as a young woman, finds that a motorcycle, of all things, ends up being the anchor that she needs. In her quest to find the perfect ride, she learns how to maintain a bike, navigate different types of terrain, and fit in with the gearheads who make up motorcycle culture.
VERDICT This is a road trip book in the literal and figurative sense as the author takes readers on a scenic ride through the backcountry roads of being a woman in what is often considered a man's world. Ideal for readers who enjoyed the motorcycle sections of Robert M. Pirsig's cult classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance but could have done without the zen. [See Prepub Alert, 10/20/14.]
Reviewed by Staff , Feb 19, 2015
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