Ostiarius Volume two: Earn your salt

The true story of a fighter and his family broken by undiagnosed autism and the resulting trauma. Sean writes a frank and engrossing account of his life as he learns to fight from several different masters in the martial arts. As Sean learns more about the martial way he also discovers secrets about his family and place of birth that reveal not only the undiagnosed autism that tore his family apart but the shocking genocide and generations of pain that haunted him. Sean demonstrates how generations of tragedy drove the epigenetic evolution of his family members to survive at all costs. Sean's story touches on racism, sexuality, violence, trauma, martial arts and so much more. All from the perspective of an autistic fighter trying to unlearn the patterns of abuse that shaped his family and childhood so that he can become the father he never had to his own daughter. Read more