League of Somebodies
League of Somebodies by Samuel Sattin tells the story of Lenard Sikophsky, a small, crippled boy in Boston, Massachusetts, who, after undergoing a series of grueling and death-defying tests and consuming volatile chemicals, goes on to become the world's first genuine superhero.
The first part of the book involves Lenard's father, Fearghas Murdoch Sikopshky, a depraved patriarch of Scottish/Jewish origin who forces his son to pass a series of masculin...