Man alive, a true story of violence, forgiveness and becoming a man, Thomas Page McBee
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Man alive, a true story of violence, forgiveness and becoming a man, Thomas Page McBee
Language
eng
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no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Man alive
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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Thomas Page McBee
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City Lights/Sister Spit
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a true story of violence, forgiveness and becoming a man
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
Target audience
adult
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