Tomorrow Night at Dog Eared Books: Andrew Tilin author of The Doper Next Door

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Tomorrow (Sunday) night at 8 o'clock at Dog Eared we continue our
weekly events series with a reading by Andrew Tillin author of the
Doper Next Door. Swing on by for a truly illuminating experience!

What happens to a regular guy who dopes? Surprised to learn that pro
athletes aren’t the only ones taking performance-enhancing substances,
journalist Andrew Tilin goes in search of the average juicing Joe,
hoping to find a few things out: Why would normal people take these
substances? Where do folks get them? Does the stuff really work?

But these controversial drugs often silence their users, and so his
queries might have gone unanswered had Tilin not looked in the mirror
and succumbed to curiosity. Soon wielding syringes, this forty-
something husband and father of two children becomes the doper next
door.

During his yearlong odyssey, Tilin is transformed. He becomes
stronger, hornier, and aggressive. He wades into a subculture of
doping physicians, real estate agents, and aging women who believe
that Tilin’s type of legal “hormone replacement therapy” is the key to
staying young—and he often agrees. He also lives with the price paid
for renewed vitality, worrying about his health, marriage, and
cheating ways as an amateur bike racer. And all along the way, he
tells us what doping is really like—empowering and scary.