/lit/ - Literature

>grow up in suburban LA
>working class immigrant parents from basque country
>spend my days at grandparents' house while parents work, watching TV all day, wandering around the neighborhood, sitting in driveway and listening to the trains in the distance
>passive, uneventful childhood marred by vague loneliness i couldn't yet articulate
>enter school, not popular, constantly humiliated through the years, liked by teachers
>show promise in language arts classes, learn to love reading, writing, language itself
>mother with emotional issues, "disciplined" me as i grew up to be a sensitive, impressionable kid
>lose belief in God when my prayers for her to stop or change arent answered
>beatings culminate in a day of straight up torture, not allowed to sit or sleep after being getting the shit beat of me for hours
>henceforth alienated from peers and family, feeling depressed, mother tries to convince i'm autistic
>don't go out, spend hours on the internet throughout middle school and high school
>learn to be beside myself, learn classical guitar, read, sing, watch films
>wait for the day i'll be free
>study and get full ride to university on the east coast to study literature
>taking engaging classes, meeting new people
>go on a school-funded trip to florence in the winter
>sit down next statue of david
>girl sits down next to me, introduces herself, studies art history
>we talk about the david, then our lives and interests
>throughout the trip, we go on walks, read next to each other
>go to museums, she explains the art to me, giving me detailed accounts of their history and the various materials used to produce them
>last night in florence, she takes my virginity
>return to school, be friends for a little while, start dating
>nice, beautiful, intelligent, sympathetic to me when troubling feelings resurface
>she graduates a year earlier, gets good job in the city
>dating 3 yrs, move in together, slowly building life
>psychedelic therapy
>feeling good
>feeling the One

What literature captures what it means for a child to become a man?