Man alive : a true story of violence, forgiveness and becoming a man

The Resource Man alive : a true story of violence, forgiveness and becoming a man

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Man alive : a true story of violence, forgiveness and becoming a man

Title remainder

a true story of violence, forgiveness and becoming a man

Statement of responsibility

Thomas Page McBee

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

306.768092

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

City Lights/Sister Spit

Target audience

adult

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