Man Alive

Description:

"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 threatened his life and then released him in an odd moment of mercy. Standing at the brink of the life-changing decision to transition from female to male, McBee seeks to understand these examples of flawed manhood as he cobbles together his own identity. 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."--

subjects: Transgender people,  Transsexuals,  Female-to-male transsexuals,  Gender identity,  Biography,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs,  PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality,  FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Abuse / General,  LGBTQ gender identity,  LGBTQ biography and memoir,  Lambda Literary Awards,  Lambda Literary Award Winner,  Authors, biography

People: Thomas Page McBee

Places: United States