Asphalt Asylum: The Dark Roads To Light

Experience the charity, horrors, and wonders of hitchhiking seven thousand miles alone. As nineteen-year-old Steve Theme leaves on a hitchhiking trek, he has no destination, no timeframe, and no self-respect. A home life of abuse and addiction didn't prevent him from being selected Scholar/Athlete of the Year as a senior in high school, but hiding one life from the other has broken him into fragments. He leaves Seattle in 1978 as a know-it-all whose hobbies are shoplifting malt liquor and despising his university classmates, but he longs for an inner peace without resentments. This remarkable memoir traverses a journey of doubt and growth against a backdrop of constant vulnerability and danger. Theme is a captive witness to dozens of people's stories until, finally, he's able to tell his own. Asphalt Asylum carries the reader on a journey where an alienated young man eventually understands that he's always been part of the fabric that connects us all--love.

• | Author: Steve Theme
• | Publisher: Steve W. Thieme
• | Publication Date: Jun 16, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 360 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0986392901
• | ISBN-13: 9780986392900