Me Island

Odysseus battled against the deadly lure of the Sirens.
Theseus wended his way through the stygian labyrinth to slay the hideous Minotaur.
Icarus flew towards the sun on delicate wings made of reeds, feathers, and wax.
What does Joseph Carlucci share in common with these men of myth?
He embraces the Sirens' song of sexual violence.
He stumbles through a shadowy and perilous labyrinth of drug abuse and alcoholism.
He soars into a distorted fantasy world only to burn and plunge into an abyss of cold reality.
Follow his odyssey through adolescence to manhood.
A tragic hero?
Perhaps . . . ..