Man Alive
A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man
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Thomas Page McBee
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Winner - Best Transgender Nonfiction - 2015 Lambda Literary Awards
Best Books of 2014 - Publishers Weekly
Best Books of 2014 - NPR Books
Best Nonficton Books of 2014 - Kirkus Reviews
10 Best Transgender Nonfiction Books - Advocate
What does it really mean to be a man? In Man Alive, Thomas Page McBee attempts to answer that question by focusing on two of the men who most impacted his life - one, his otherwise ordinary father who abused him as a child, and the other, a mugger who almost killed him. Standing at the brink of the life-changing decision to transition from female to male, McBee seeks to understand these examples of flawed manhood and tells us how a brush with violence sent him on the quest to untangle a sinister past and freed him to become the man he was meant to be.
Man Alive engages an extraordinary personal story to tell a universal one - how we all struggle to create ourselves and how this struggle often requires risks. Far from a transgender transition tell-all, Man Alive grapples with the larger questions of legacy and forgiveness, love and violence, agency and invisibility.
About the author: Thomas Page McBee was the "masculinity expert" for VICE and writes the columns "Self-Made Man" for The Rumpus and "The American Man" for Pacific Standard. His essays and reportage have appeared in The New York Times, TheAtlantic.com, Salon, and BuzzFeed, where he was a regular contributor on gender issues. He lives in New York City, where he works as the editor of special projects at Quartz, and is currently at work on a book about modern American masculinity.
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- Kade
- 05-30-18
Worth a listen
The book was very relatable on many aspects, and it was nice to hear strong willed guy make it through some of the worst.
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- Chrissy
- 10-05-17
Beautiful and healing
One of the most beautiful books I have read in so long. I feel like it stirred healing and grace in me. Strongly recommend.
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- Peter Franks
- 06-15-23
Important Read
I found this book to be very important for me to hear. It resonates deeply in me, but I believe anyone could be better for having read it. I appreciate McBee’s delivery of his work. The skill with which this is written is so impressive. I definitely recommend this.
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